503,A 25-cm reflecting telescope, a popular size for amateur astronomers. It is a Newtonian type, with eyepiece near the front of the telescope tube. ,IMAGE_pic1\900_999\952.GIF
499,A 28-inch (71-cm) refracting telescope of the Royal Greenwich Observatory. ,IMAGE_pic1\900_999\921.GIF
121,A battle-scarred Columbia on the runway at Edwards Air Force Base in November 1982 after its fifth mission (STS-5) in 20 months. ,IMAGE_pic1\700_799\710.GIF
155,A beautiful cloudscape from about 300 km high, showing towering storm clouds over New Guinea. (STS-35) ,IMAGE_pic1\1100_99\108.GIF
448,A beautiful picture of Saturn and its shining ring system taken by Voyager 2 from a distance of some 43 million km in July 1981. ,IMAGE_pic1\200_299\236.GIF
3,A bust at the Baikonur Space Museum of Sergei Korolev, chief architect of the Russian space programme. ,IMAGE_pic1\300_399\366.GIF
4,A bust of the 'father of astronautics', Konstantin Tsiolkovsky; Baikonur Space Museum. ,IMAGE_pic1\300_399\367.GIF
136,A chase plane shoots this picture of the dawn lift-off of Discovery. (STS-51I) ,IMAGE_pic1\1800_99\883.GIF
15,A classic space picture showing Bruce McCandless on February 7, 1984, making the first untethered EVA with the manned manoeuvring unit (MMU). (STS-41B) ,IMAGE_pic1\500_599\534.GIF
497,A cluster of far-distant galaxies in the constellation Hercules. Galaxies tend to group together in space. ,IMAGE_pic1\900_999\996.GIF
497,A cluster of galaxies in the constellation Virgo. This cluster has up to about 2,500 members. ,IMAGE_pic1\900_999\935.GIF
108,A colour TV picture shows John Young setting up a magnetometer. (Apollo 16) ,IMAGE_pic1\1600_99\603.GIF
306,A colourful mosaic created by processing Landsat data. It shows a coastal region near Newquay in south-west England. ,IMAGE_pic1\500_599\542.GIF
498,A colourful star field in the constellation Cygnus, including the North American nebula. ,IMAGE_pic1\900_999\956.GIF
103,A commemorative plaque on one of the lunar module's landing legs. (Apollo 11) ,IMAGE_pic1\1500_99\503.GIF
136,A communications satellite springs out of Discovery's payload bay on STS-51I. Its attached PAM booster will take it to high orbit. ,IMAGE_pic1\700_799\706.GIF
446,A computer-generated 'fisheye' view of Mars from the Viking 1 lander. ,IMAGE_pic1\1700_99\739.GIF
457,A computer-simulated view of the surface of Venus, based on radar scans by Magellan in 1991. It shows a volcanic crater with a diameter of about 25 km, surrounded by numerous lava flows. ,IMAGE_pic1\1000_99\66.GIF
57,A concept for a solar power satellite, which will collect and concentrate solar energy and beam it back to Earth in the form of microwaves. ,IMAGE_pic1\1900_99\925.GIF
448,A copy of the record disc "Sounds of Earth" which is carried by each Voyager probe. The record carries in digital code sights and sounds of the human and natural world and messages from leaders of many nations. ,IMAGE_pic1\200_299\250.GIF
108,A cosmic ray detector is placed by one of the lunar module's landing legs. (Apollo 16) ,IMAGE_pic1\1600_99\602.GIF
76,A cosmonaut undergoes water-tank training at the Gagarin cosmonaut training centre at Star City. ,IMAGE_pic1\400_499\409.GIF
277,A cutaway diagram of the Hubble Space Telescope, a reflecting telescope with a main mirror 2.4 metres in diameter. ,IMAGE_pic1\200_299\284.GIF
36,A cutaway drawing of the Apollo CSM. The crew of three lie in couches in the pressurized command module at front. ,IMAGE_pic1\400_499\498.GIF
40,A cutaway of the Mercury spacecraft, showing the cramped cockpit and the escape tower attached. ,IMAGE_pic1\500_599\555.GIF
358,A cyclone winding itself up in the North Atlantic from data returned by the Tiros N weather satellite. ,IMAGE_pic1\1700_99\722.GIF
272,A Delta 3910 launch vehicle lifts off the launch pad at Vendenberg Air Force Base, California, carrying the infrared astronomy satellite IRAS on January 25, 1983. ,IMAGE_pic1\0_99\36.GIF
393,A Delta launch vehicle rises from the pad at Cape Canaveral with its solid booster rockets blazing. It is carrying a comsat. ,IMAGE_pic1\0_99\69.GIF
393,A delta launch vehicle thunders from the launch pad at Cape Canaveral, carrying a weather satellite for NOAA, the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration. ,IMAGE_pic1\500_599\576.GIF
57,A design for a lunar orbital transfer vehicle (OTV) and lander. The OTV stays in orbit. Both vehicles return to Earth-orbiting space station. ,IMAGE_pic1\1900_99\924.GIF
106,A distant 'Antares' and the lunar landscape. The tracks have been made by the astronauts' equipment-carrying 'golf cart', or modularized equipment transporter. (Apollo 14) ,IMAGE_pic1\1500_99\557.GIF
118,A dramatic gantry picture shows Columbia and the STS-2 shuttle stack lifting off the launch pad in November 1981. ,IMAGE_pic1\900_999\907.GIF
150,A dramatic picture of typhoon Sam in the South Indian Ocean. (STS-32) ,IMAGE_pic1\1000_99\28a.GIF
108,A dust-covered John Young continues to collect samples during the mission's third EVA. (Apollo 16) ,IMAGE_pic1\1600_99\613.GIF
446,A false colour picture of Mars' giant volcano Olympus Mons, obtained by computer processing data from the Viking orbiters. ,IMAGE_pic1\0_99\94.GIF
357,A false-colour image produced from Meteosat data, showing Europe and Africa. The satellite is in geostationary orbit on the Equator over Africa. ,IMAGE_pic1\600_699\659.GIF
60,A false-colour picture of the Sun taken by Skylab astronauts in ultraviolet light. Dark areas show where there are "holes" in the corona, or outer atmosphere. ,IMAGE_pic1\200_299\276.GIF
60,A false-colour Skylab picture showing the stormy surface of the Sun, taken in 1973. ,IMAGE_pic1\100_199\137.GIF
106,A fascinating picture of the lunar landscape showing a crater chain named Davey. (Apollo 14) ,IMAGE_pic1\1500_99\561.GIF
393,A fascinating picture that shows the separation of the nine solid booster rockets from the core of the Delta launch vehicle. ,IMAGE_pic1\0_99\96.GIF
501,A fine open star cluster, NGC3324. ,IMAGE_pic1\900_999\953.GIF
128,A fine picture of Discovery on the launch pad at the Kennedy Space Center, being readied for STS-41D. ,IMAGE_pic1\700_799\746.GIF
113,A fine picture of the ASTP Apollo, shot from Soyuz. Note the attached docking module, to which Soyuz will dock. ,IMAGE_pic1\400_499\422.GIF
180,A fine view of Enterprise on the final approach and landing test (ALT) on October 26, 1977. The pilots are Fred Haise and Gordon Fullerton. ,IMAGE_pic1\1900_99\922.GIF
152,A fine view of the HST, still gripped by the RMS arm. Its antennas and solar panels are not yet deployed. (STS-31) ,IMAGE_pic1\1000_99\52.GIF
38,A fish-eye lens view of the interior of a Gemini capsule. ,IMAGE_pic1\0_99\85.GIF
106,A frogman helps Edgar Mitchell out of the Apollo 14 command module after splashdown in the Pacific. ,IMAGE_pic1\1500_99\563.GIF
15,A full frontal view of Bruce McCandless on STS-41C, prior to flight testing the MMU. ,IMAGE_pic1\0_99\63.GIF
55,A full-scale mock-up of the ACRV, the latest idea in emergency crew return from Freedom. ,IMAGE_pic1\1900_99\951.GIF
56,A full-scale mock-up of the Columbus pressurized laboratory, one of the four main modules of the Freedom space station. ,IMAGE_pic1\1400_99\418.GIF
446,A full-scale model of the Viking lander that set down on Mars in 1976. In the foreground is the extendable sampling arm. ,IMAGE_pic1\0_99\75.GIF
41,A full-size mock-up at an exhibition in Moscow of the Salyut 6 space station, docked with a Soyuz spacecraft at one end (left) and a Progress ferry at the other. ,IMAGE_pic1\100_199\147.GIF
275,A full-sky map produced from COBE microwave data. It shows slight differences in temperature between different parts of the sky: pink is hot, blue is cold. Scientists think this difference is due to the motion of the solar system relative to distant matter. ,IMAGE_pic1\1000_99\72.GIF
497,A galaxy in the constellation Camelopardalis. It is a barred- spiral galaxy, with a kind of bar through the centre. ,IMAGE_pic1\900_999\998.GIF
497,A galaxy in the constellation Ursa Major, M101. It is an Sc type, with wide-spaced spiral arms. ,IMAGE_pic1\900_999\994.GIF
107,A gas-riddled sample of basalt rock from the Apollo 15 landing site. ,IMAGE_pic1\1500_99\592.GIF
361,A GOES weather satellite image of the Caribbean/west Atlantic region, showing a huge hurricane swirling over Hispaniola and Puerto Rico. ,IMAGE_pic1\500_599\578.GIF
361,A GOES weather satellite under test prior to launch. ,IMAGE_pic1\0_99\3.GIF
152,A happy STS-31 crew announces that the 'HST is open for business' after successful deployment of the telescope. They are, from the left, Charles Bolden, Loren Shriver, Kathryn Sullivan, Bruce McCandless and Steven Hawley. ,IMAGE_pic1\1000_99\56.GIF
57,A helicopter is quickly on the scene after the ACRV has parachuted back to Earth. ,IMAGE_pic1\1900_99\954.GIF
330,A Juno 1/Jupiter C rocket blasts off the launch pad at Cape Canaveral on January 31, 1958, carrying Explorer 1, soon to become the first US satellite. ,IMAGE_pic1\1700_99\727.GIF
304,A Landsat 1 image showing the Salton Sea in California and the patchwork of irrigated farmland (red squares) at either end. ,IMAGE_pic1\0_99\4.GIF
304,A Landsat image of Western Scotland. The false colours have been chosen to bring out details in the vegatation. ,IMAGE_pic1\100_199\153.GIF
106,A laser reflector, deployed by the Apollo 14 astronauts. ,IMAGE_pic1\1500_99\560.GIF
0,A lunar craft powered by flying Moon men, a fanciful idea put forward by the noted English astronomer Sir John Herschel in 1836. ,IMAGE_pic1\1700_99\726.GIF
457,A Magellan radar image of the surface of Venus, showing what appear to be a volcanic crater and lava flows. ,IMAGE_pic1\200_299\270.GIF
46,A magnificent example of Gemini 11 photography, showing north- east Africa, and in the distance the Red Sea. ,IMAGE_pic1\1600_99\656.GIF
362,A map showing world surface temperatures for January 1979 based on data sent back by NOAA weather satellites. ,IMAGE_pic1\100_199\119.GIF
437,A Mariner 4 picture taken of the cratered Martian surface taken from a distance of about 13,500 km. ,IMAGE_pic1\1700_99\747.GIF
501,A massive globular star cluster in the constellation Centaurus, known as Omega Centauri. ,IMAGE_pic1\900_999\991.GIF
40,A Mercury capsule, pictured heat shield first, at the National Aerospace Museum, Washington DC. ,IMAGE_pic1\500_599\552.GIF
405,A Mercury-Redstone rocket under test. This was the vehicle that launched Alan Shepard and Virgil Grissom on their suborbital flights in the Mercury programme. ,IMAGE_pic1\800_899\847.GIF
357,A Meteosat image of Europe and Africa taken in the infrared. Vivid false coloration makes the hot land masses stand out. ,IMAGE_pic1\700_799\727.GIF
389,A milestone is passed in rocketry when the first two-stage step rocket designed by Jet Propulsion Laboratory is launched from the White Sands Proving Ground, New Mexico. It comprises a WAC Corporal atop a V-2. ,IMAGE_pic1\100_199\131.GIF
168,A minute or so after lift-off of the shuttle, all that can be seen is the column of smoke and steam spewed out by the SRBs. ,IMAGE_pic1\900_999\903.GIF
29,A model of Sputnik 2 at Baikonur Space Museum. This satellite was the first to carry a living creature, the dog Laika. ,IMAGE_pic1\300_399\369.GIF
330,A model of the first US satellite Explorer 1, attached to the third stage of the Jupiter C rocket. It was launched on January 31, 1958. ,IMAGE_pic1\0_99\48.GIF
277,A model of the HST and the crew that will deploy it on STS-31, who are, from the left: Steven Hawley, Kathryn Sullivan, Bruce McCandless, Charles Bolden and Loren Shriver. ,IMAGE_pic1\1000_99\58b.GIF
431,A model of the X-30 National Aerospace Plane at the Visitors Center at the Kennedy Space Center, Florida. The design, however, is not yet finalized. ,IMAGE_pic1\1300_99\357.GIF
18,A montage of images to commemorate the seven astronauts who perished in the Challenger disaster (STS-51L) in January 1986. Pictured clockwise from the left: Ron McNair, Ellison Onizuka, Judy Resnik, Francis Scobee, Mike Smith, Greg Jarvis and Christa McAuliffe. ,IMAGE_pic1\600_699\649.GIF
123,A month before lift-off, the STS-7 crew train inside the shuttle mission simulator. ,IMAGE_pic1\1800_99\803.GIF
161,A more chaotic than usual in-flight portrait of the STS-44 crew. Frederick Gregory is in the centre; the others, going clockwise, are: Thomas Hennen, James Voss, Mario Runco, Story Musgrave and Tom Henricks. ,IMAGE_pic1\1200_99\217.GIF
441,A mosaic of Mars, prepared from the pictures taken by Mariner 9 in 1971/72. At top is the rugged terrain surrounding the north polar ice cap. ,IMAGE_pic1\700_799\753.GIF
444,A mosaic of Moon images taken by Mariner 10, showing prominently near the top, the circular Sea of Crises. ,IMAGE_pic1\1700_99\764.GIF
488,A mosaic of Voyager 2 images showing details of the surface of Ganymede, Jupiter's largest satellite. The largest crater is about 150 km across. ,IMAGE_pic1\700_799\737.GIF
468,A mosaic picture of the lunar surface made up from Lunar Orbiter photographs. The large crater is some 90 km across. ,IMAGE_pic1\100_199\163.GIF
70,A NASA U2 high-altitude research aircraft overflies San Francisco Bay, California. ,IMAGE_pic1\400_499\489.GIF
70,A NASA-designed propfan, an advanced turboprop engine, installed in a Gulfstream jet for flight tests. ,IMAGE_pic1\600_699\684.GIF
362,A NOAA weather satellite image showing cloud cover in the USA. ,IMAGE_pic1\700_799\742.GIF
481,A painting showing Voyager 2 closing on Uranus. When the probe did visit, in 1986, the surface showed no features whatsoever. ,IMAGE_pic1\100_199\144.GIF
47,A pensive John Glenn in the Friendship 7 Mercury capsule just before his flight. ,IMAGE_pic1\1600_99\669.GIF
489,A photograph of Saturn taken through an Earth-based telescope. ,IMAGE_pic1\200_299\261.GIF
449,A photomontage of Saturn and its major moons (Voyager 1 photos) shows at top Titan, in the foreground Dione; the others (from the left) are Rhea, Enceladus, Mimas and Tethys. ,IMAGE_pic1\200_299\257.GIF
448,A photomontage of Voyager 2 images simulates what Uranus would look like from a spaceship in orbit around its moon Miranda. ,IMAGE_pic1\200_299\248.GIF
444,A photomosaic of Mercury, pictured by Mariner 10 on March 29, 1974. It has been artificially tinted to simulate the planet's colour. ,IMAGE_pic1\200_299\228.GIF
109,A picture of the curious orange soil found at Taurus-Littrow. (Apollo 17) ,IMAGE_pic1\1600_99\628.GIF
483,A picture of the full Moon, as we see it from Earth, covered by extensive maria (seas). The Apollo astronauts saw and photographed quite different-looking full Moons, which showed much of the far side we can't see from Earth. ,IMAGE_pic1\200_299\204.GIF
107,A picture of the Hadley landing site near the end of the third and final EVA. The ground is criss-crossed with tyre tracks and bootprints. (Apollo 15) ,IMAGE_pic1\1500_99\586a.GIF
497,A radio telescope image of the peculiar galaxy Centaurus A, which is a powerful source of radio waves. ,IMAGE_pic1\900_999\960.GIF
497,A radio telescope image of the Whirlpool galaxy (M51). ,IMAGE_pic1\900_999\948.GIF
6,A rare picture that shows both Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin on the Moon together breaking out the US flag. ,IMAGE_pic1\300_399\321.GIF
457,A remarkable view of the surface of Venus obtained by Magellan's radar, showing rugged terrain on a plateau (Lakshmi Planum) in Ishtar Terra, one of the two big continents on the planet. ,IMAGE_pic1\200_299\269.GIF
272,A ring of matter surrounds the bright star Vega, according to data returned by IRAS. It could be another solar system. ,IMAGE_pic1\200_299\226.GIF
74,A rocket sled once used for g-force experiments at the open-air space museum at Cape Canaveral. ,IMAGE_pic1\700_799\703.GIF
107,A sample of typical lunar breccia, collected by the Apollo 15 moonwalkers. ,IMAGE_pic1\1500_99\593.GIF
367,A satellite dish at a beachside hotel in Florida, which picks up TV programmes from a comsat in geostationary orbit. ,IMAGE_pic1\600_699\600.GIF
99,A Saturn IB launch vehicle carries Apollo 7 into the heavens on the first manned Apollo flight on October 11, 1968. ,IMAGE_pic1\700_799\764.GIF
99,A Saturn IB launches the Apollo 7 crew into orbit on October 11, 1968. ,IMAGE_pic1\1400_99\445.GIF
113,A Saturn IB launches the Apollo spacecraft towards a rendezvous with Soyuz on the ASTP mission. ,IMAGE_pic1\400_499\415.GIF
41,A scale model of the manned space ferry Soyuz; Baikonur Space Museum. ,IMAGE_pic1\300_399\370.GIF
106,A scanning electron microscope picture of crystals in a cavity of Apollo 14 breccia rock. ,IMAGE_pic1\1900_99\963.GIF
483,A scene on the Moon next century, when a permanent base has been established there. It shows a facility for producing liquid oxygen by processing lunar rocks. ,IMAGE_pic1\900_999\939.GIF
413,A Scout launch vehicle being raised into its launch position at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility, Wallops Island, Virginia. ,IMAGE_pic1\1900_99\956.GIF
449,A sequence of pictures of Saturn's rings that show rotation of the spoke-like features in the bright B ring. (Voyager 1) ,IMAGE_pic1\900_999\938.GIF
169,A shuttle external tank being transferred into the VAB. ,IMAGE_pic1\300_399\358.GIF
57,A shuttle orbiter is making one of its regular visits to space station Freedom to bring a new crew and fresh supplies. ,IMAGE_pic1\1900_99\928.GIF
57,A shuttle orbiter manoeuvres in to dock with Freedom at the end of the century when the space station is fully operational. ,IMAGE_pic1\0_99\92.GIF
167,A shuttle orbiter, with chase plane in attendance, glides through an orange Californian sky towards the Edwards landing site. ,IMAGE_pic1\800_899\895.GIF
41,A Soyuz crew head into the setting Sun as they make their way to the launch pad a few hours before lift-off. ,IMAGE_pic1\400_499\408.GIF
41,A Soyuz spacecraft lifts off the launch pad at Baikonur atop its old but reliable A-2 launch vehicle. ,IMAGE_pic1\400_499\410.GIF
53,A Spacelab card game. Four of the crew relax by playing cards on the 'ceiling' of the laboratory module. From the left, they are: Owen Garriott, Robert Parker, Ulf Merbold and Byron Lichtenberg. ,IMAGE_pic1\1800_99\816.GIF
31,A spacesuit-clad technician demonstrates the manned manoeuvring unit (MMU), the Buck Rogers-style jet-propelled backpack used by shuttle astronauts on EVA. ,IMAGE_pic1\800_899\819.GIF
76,A spacesuited cosmonaut entering the gondola of the centrifuge at the Gagarin cosmonaut training centre at Star City. ,IMAGE_pic1\300_399\398.GIF
33,A spacesuited Donald Slayton during training for a Mercury space flight, which for him never materializes. ,IMAGE_pic1\800_899\807.GIF
177,A special effects photograph showing Columbia in the VAB as preparations begin in 1980 for the following spring's maiden flight of the shuttle. ,IMAGE_pic1\600_699\641.GIF
426,A spectacular night launch on May 8, 1985, for the third Ariane 3 launch vehicle, which carries two comsats, G Star 1 (US) and Telecom 1B (France). ,IMAGE_pic1\1400_99\410.GIF
164,A spectacular view of the spacewalking trio who captured the Intelsat, still clinging on. Only two are visible here, Rick Hieb and Tom Akers; Pierre Thuot is in shadow. (STS-49) ,IMAGE_pic1\1200_99\283.GIF
497,A spiral galaxy in Centaurus, type Sb. This is similar in shape to our own Galaxy, the Milky Way. ,IMAGE_pic1\900_999\999.GIF
172,A splendid bird's-eye view of a shuttle lift-off at the Kennedy Space Center, looking towards the launch pad over the VAB. ,IMAGE_pic1\700_799\788.GIF
151,A splendid sea and cloudscape photographed from Atlantis on STS- 36, with the orange Sun-glow reflected from the sea through the clouds. ,IMAGE_pic1\1000_99\42.GIF
179,A STS-47 photograph of Hurricane Bonnie, located in the Atlantic some 800 km from Bermuda. ,IMAGE_pic1\1300_99\341.GIF
106,A stunning shot of Alan Shepard on the Moon, shielding his eyes from the glare of the low Sun. (Apollo 14) ,IMAGE_pic1\1500_99\553.GIF
296,A TDRS (tracking and data relay satellite) is prepared for launch in the vertical processing facility at the Kennedy Space Center. ,IMAGE_pic1\800_899\883.GIF
377,A TDRS communications satellite in place inside the payload canister before this is installed in a shuttle orbiter. Another comsat is in position in its protective cradle. ,IMAGE_pic1\1900_99\974.GIF
118,A team from one of the recovery ships boats out to attach tow cables to one of the SRBs that has parachuted back to Earth after the STS-2 lift-off. ,IMAGE_pic1\900_999\909.GIF
73,A technician at the Johnson Space Center, Houston, taking readings radioed back from the seismometers left behind on the Moon by the Apollo astronauts. They formed part of the ALSEP scientific stations. ,IMAGE_pic1\300_399\332.GIF
35,A technician demonstrating a proposed life-support rescue ball to carry an astronaut without a spacesuit in an in-flight emergency on the shuttle. ,IMAGE_pic1\800_899\852.GIF
142,A tense breakfast for the STS-26 astronauts a few hours before lift-off on the first post-Challenger shuttle flight. The future of the shuttle programme will ride with them on Discovery. They are (from the left): George Nelson, Richard Covey, Rick Hauck, David Hilmers and Michael Lounge. ,IMAGE_pic1\200_299\220.GIF
106,A tiny fragment of lunar glass found in a core sample. (Apollo 14) ,IMAGE_pic1\1500_99\568.GIF
142,A tractor rocket escape system for the shuttle being evaluated at Hurricane Mesa, Utah, in November 1987. (STS-26) ,IMAGE_pic1\1900_99\902.GIF
7,A TV camera captures the moment on July 20, 1969, when Neil Armstrong steps down from the Apollo 11 LM on to the Moon. ,IMAGE_pic1\100_199\165.GIF
41,A TV camera captures the Soyuz 16 descent module touching down at the end of the ASTP mission. ,IMAGE_pic1\400_499\411.GIF
61,A typical configuration for Spacelab, with the two-segment pressurized laboratory and instrument pallet. ,IMAGE_pic1\800_899\811.GIF
483,A typical Moon rock known as breccia, made up of cemented rock fragments. ,IMAGE_pic1\700_799\726.GIF
107,A typical volcanic Moon rock brought back by the Apollo 15 astronauts in 1971. It was nicknamed "Vuggy". ,IMAGE_pic1\200_299\206.GIF
422,A V-2 rocket being launched at White Sands Proving Range, New Mexico, in the late 1940s. ,IMAGE_pic1\1900_99\957.GIF
101,A vertical view of a thunderhead over South America. (Apollo 9) ,IMAGE_pic1\1400_99\480.GIF
503,A view of the Arecibo radio telescope from the ground, showing the receiving antenna suspended nearly 200 metres above the dish. ,IMAGE_pic1\900_999\945.GIF
159,A view of the Red Sea, with Africa at bottom and Arabia at top. Note the plume of dust blowing off Africa over the sea. (STS-43) ,IMAGE_pic1\1100_99\184.GIF
167,A view of the tile-covered belly of the orbiter as it is lifted high into the VAB to be mated with the external tank and SRBs. ,IMAGE_pic1\1900_99\987.GIF
446,A Viking approach photograph showing at centre the three huge volcanoes on the Tharsis Ridge. To their left is the biggest volcano of all, mighty Olympus Mons. ,IMAGE_pic1\200_299\231.GIF
446,A Viking orbiter picture of the Martian surface. It is pockmarked with craters and criss-crossed with channels, some made by lava flows but others maybe by flowing water. ,IMAGE_pic1\100_199\146.GIF
448,A Voyager 2 picture showing Saturn's A ring, with its dark Encke division. ,IMAGE_pic1\200_299\237.GIF
449,A Voyager close-up of the Jupiter's Great Red Spot, in which the clouds rotate anticlockwise about once every six days. ,IMAGE_pic1\200_299\243.GIF
419,A Voyager spacecraft is being installed in its protective shroud atop the Titan-Centaur launch vehicle in the summer of 1977. ,IMAGE_pic1\200_299\235.GIF
138,A well-formed mercury iodide crystal prepared in material processing experiments on Spacelab D1. (STS-61A) ,IMAGE_pic1\1400_99\404.GIF
497,A well-known double galaxy, the Whirlpool galaxy, or M51, in the constellation Canes Venatici. ,IMAGE_pic1\900_999\947.GIF
122,Aboard its 747 carrier aircraft, new orbiter Challenger flies over downtown Houston on its way to the Kennedy Space Center. (STS-6) ,IMAGE_pic1\1700_99\795.GIF
117,About 3,000 journalists and photographers have gathered at the press site at the Kennedy Space Center to witness the excitement of the first shuttle lift-off (STS-1). ,IMAGE_pic1\900_999\905.GIF
487,Activity in Martian orbit next century, where an orbiting complex has been established to support a manned mission. ,IMAGE_pic1\500_599\508.GIF
437,Activity inside the Mariner 4 control room at Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California. ,IMAGE_pic1\1700_99\746.GIF
31,Advanced construction in Earth orbit early next century. Much of the work is done by remote-controlled robots. ,IMAGE_pic1\700_799\749.GIF
75,Aerial view of ELA 1, the first launch pad built at the Kourou Space Centre in French Guiana. ELA stands for 'ensemble de lancement Ariane'. ,IMAGE_pic1\1400_99\431.GIF
499,Aerial view of the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in the Chilean Andes. ,IMAGE_pic1\900_999\988.GIF
68,Aerial view of the launch pad area of the Kourou Space Centre in French Guiana, launch site for ESA's Ariane launch vehicles. ,IMAGE_pic1\1400_99\419.GIF
7,After a flight in 1960, X-15 pilot Neil Armstrong poses next to the famed rocket plane in which some pilots gained astronauts' wings because they flew so high. ,IMAGE_pic1\100_199\172.GIF
168,After a successful lift-off on April 4, 1983, Challenger's SRBs separated two minutes into the flight. ,IMAGE_pic1\1700_99\796.GIF
100,After entering lunar orbit, the Apollo 8 crew witness for the first time the breathtaking sight of the Earth rising above the lunar horizon. ,IMAGE_pic1\1400_99\464.GIF
179,After its hugely successful 9-day first mission, Endeavour is about to touch down on the runway at the Edwards Air Force Base in California on May 16, 1992. ,IMAGE_pic1\1000_99\21.GIF
401,After launch by Little Joe, a Mercury capsule parachutes back to a splashdown at sea. ,IMAGE_pic1\1900_99\972.GIF
100,After splashdown, the Apollo 8 command module, with flotation collar still attached, is hoisted aboard the recovery ship USS Yorktown. ,IMAGE_pic1\800_899\802.GIF
132,After the STS-51D mission Discovery was found to have suffered tile damage on the elevons. ,IMAGE_pic1\800_899\869.GIF
0,After the successful launch of the first US satellite, Explorer 1, on January 31, 1958, key members of the project triumphantly hold aloft a model of the satellite. They are (from the left): William Pickering, James van Allen and Wernher von Braun. ,IMAGE_pic1\100_199\133.GIF
132,After their abortive attempt to activate Leasat 3, the STS-51D crew pose for a portrait with the famous 'flyswatters'. They are, from the left: Senator Jake Garn, Jeffrey Hoffman, Donald Williams, Rhea Seddon, Karol Bobko, David Griggs and Charles Walker. ,IMAGE_pic1\1800_99\859.GIF
6,After they returned to Earth, the Apollo 11 astronauts were kept in isolation to prevent the transmission of any Moon germs. Here they are being congratulated by President Richard Nixon. From the left they are Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins and Edwin Aldrin. ,IMAGE_pic1\300_399\323.GIF
164,Against a cloud-flecked ocean backdrop, the Intelsat continues to drift away from Endeavour. Later its new booster will fire to thrust it into geostationary orbit. (STS-49) ,IMAGE_pic1\1200_99\287.GIF
51,Alan Bean test-flies the astronaut manoeuvring unit in the huge forward dome of the orbital workshop. (Skylab 3) ,IMAGE_pic1\1600_99\696.GIF
23,Alan Shepard in Freedom 7 rides the Mercury-Redstone rocket as it soars from the Cape Canaveral launch pad on May 5, 1961. ,IMAGE_pic1\0_99\14.GIF
23,Alan Shepard is winched aboard the recovery helicopter following his successful suborbital flight in the Mercury capsule Freedom 7 on May 5, 1961. ,IMAGE_pic1\500_599\550.GIF
145,All engines blazing, Discovery blasts off the launch pad and clears the tower. (STS-29) ,IMAGE_pic1\500_599\528.GIF
103,Along with a Navy frogman, the Apollo 11 astronauts await recovery after splashdown in the Pacific on July 24, 1969, about 20 km from the recovery ship USS 'Hornet'> ,IMAGE_pic1\1500_99\514.GIF
431,Alternative views of the Sanger spaceplane, of German design. It is a 'piggy-back' design. ,IMAGE_pic1\1300_99\358.GIF
55,An ACRV fires its retrorockets to de-orbit. ,IMAGE_pic1\1900_99\953.GIF
74,An aerial view of Complex 39 at the Kennedy Space Center. It is dominated by the massive VAB. In the background is the shuttle runway. ,IMAGE_pic1\100_199\103.GIF
38,An Agena target vehicle, used by the Gemini astronauts to practise docking techniques in 1966. ,IMAGE_pic1\0_99\80.GIF
431,An alternative launch 'pad' for Hotol, the giant Antonov AN-225 transport. This would carry Hotol to some 9 km high, before the spaceplane fired its engines. ,IMAGE_pic1\1300_99\363.GIF
57,An ambitious design for the Freedom space station by Rockwell International, which featured a dual-keel. ,IMAGE_pic1\300_399\345.GIF
103,An Apollo 11 picture worth a thousand words - a human footprint planted on the Moon's Sea of Tranquillity on July 20, 1969. ,IMAGE_pic1\200_299\216.GIF
75,An Ariane 1 prototype launch vehicle stands on the ELA 1 launch pad at the Kourou Space Centre during fit trails. ,IMAGE_pic1\1400_99\408.GIF
489,An artist's idea of how Saturn would appear from the surface of its large moon Titan, painted long before the Voyager probes visited the planet and showed the moon to be shrouded in a thick atmosphere. ,IMAGE_pic1\500_599\515.GIF
455,An artist's impression of the Giotto probe streaking towards Halley's comet in 1986. ,IMAGE_pic1\100_199\157.GIF
34,An astronaut demonstrates the new shuttle spacesuit and escape ball. The ball provides life-support in emergencies for astronauts without a spacesuit. ,IMAGE_pic1\600_699\668.GIF
386,An Atlas-Agena launch vehicle stands on the pad at Cape Canaveral. ,IMAGE_pic1\1600_99\637.GIF
387,An Atlas-Centaur launch vehicle being prepared for a late-night launch at Cape Canaveral in December 1986. ,IMAGE_pic1\300_399\300.GIF
290,An Atlas-Centaur streaks away from the pad at Cape Canaveral in May 1983, carrying an Intelsat V comsat into orbit. ,IMAGE_pic1\0_99\83.GIF
55,An early design for Freedom featured a 'dual keel', but it proved too costly. ,IMAGE_pic1\1900_99\943.GIF
480,An emblem for the Viking mission to Mars, carried by the two Viking landers that set down on the planet in 1976. ,IMAGE_pic1\500_599\511.GIF
46,An example of Gemini 11 photography showing the Middle East, with countries marked for reference. ,IMAGE_pic1\1600_99\655a.GIF
103,An example of the kind of food the Apollo 11 astronauts will take on their mission. ,IMAGE_pic1\1400_99\496a.GIF
102,An excellent head-on view of 'Charlie Brown' above the cratered lunar landscape. (Apollo 10) ,IMAGE_pic1\1400_99\489.GIF
107,An excellent picture of the Apollo 15 lunar rover. ,IMAGE_pic1\1500_99\581.GIF
106,An excellent view of 'Antares', with the 'Stars and Stripes' flying close by. (Apollo 14) ,IMAGE_pic1\1500_99\552.GIF
113,An exhibit at the National Aerospace Museum, Washington, DC, showing the hardware used in the ASTP mission. Apollo is on the left, Soyuz is on the right, with the docking module in between. ,IMAGE_pic1\600_699\674.GIF
179,An immaculate Endeavour is rolled out of Rockwell's Palmdale assembly plant in California on April 25, 1991. ,IMAGE_pic1\1000_99\1.GIF
70,An infrared image of the Orion nebula obtained by the Kuiper Airborne Observatory, which is managed by Amers Research Center. ,IMAGE_pic1\600_699\606.GIF
498,An infrared image of the Swan nebula in the constellation Sagittarius, obtained by the Kuiper Airborne Observatory of Ames Research Center. ,IMAGE_pic1\900_999\916.GIF
101,An infrared photograph of the Gulf coast of Texas, taken during Apollo 9 Earth resources experiments. ,IMAGE_pic1\1400_99\478.GIF
101,An infrared photograph of the Salton Sea and agricultural land in southern California, during the Earth resources experiment. ,IMAGE_pic1\1400_99\479.GIF
99,An interesting fleecy cloudscape pictured from Apollo 7. ,IMAGE_pic1\1400_99\454.GIF
487,An interplanetary cargo vehicle accelerates away from Mars. This kind of vehicle, propelled by magnetoplasmic thrusters, will be needed to support manned interplanetary missions next century. ,IMAGE_pic1\500_599\513.GIF
272,An IRAS picture of the Andromeda galaxy, showing regions (red, orange and yellow) where stars are forming. ,IMAGE_pic1\200_299\266.GIF
272,An IRAS view of the plane of our Galaxy. Because it had infrared 'eyes', it was able to look through the dense dust clouds that block visible light. ,IMAGE_pic1\900_999\914.GIF
448,An oblique view of a flooded basin on Triton, created by computer-processing Voyager 2 data. ,IMAGE_pic1\600_699\617.GIF
481,An outline of the path taken by the Voyager probes, via Jupiter, to the ringed planet Saturn. ,IMAGE_pic1\100_199\185.GIF
121,Anik C3, with PAM booster attached, spins out into space. (STS-5) ,IMAGE_pic1\1700_99\787.GIF
57,Another view of space station Freedom, showing cutaway the US laboratory module. ,IMAGE_pic1\1900_99\927.GIF
46,Another view of the Agena target vehicle following tether jettison. (Gemini 11) ,IMAGE_pic1\1600_99\655.GIF
11,Apollo 1 astronauts (from the left) Edward White, Roger Chaffee and Virgil Grissom train inside the Apollo mission simulator. They are doomed to die by fire in January 1967. ,IMAGE_pic1\0_99\93.GIF
103,Apollo 11 CSM pilot Michael Collins edges in to dock with the lunar module after it has joined him in orbit after the surface exploration. ,IMAGE_pic1\1500_99\512.GIF
103,Apollo 11 photograph of the southern USA and Mexico as the crew near home. ,IMAGE_pic1\1500_99\513.GIF
114,Apollo 12 astronaut standing by 'Intrepid' after landing on the Sea of Storms. ,IMAGE_pic1\1500_99\523.GIF
105,Apollo 13/Saturn V lifts off in the afternoon of April 11, 1970, destination the Fra Mauro region of the Moon. ,IMAGE_pic1\1500_99\536.GIF
106,Apollo 14 astronauts Edgar Mitchell, Stuart Roosa and Alan Shepard train inside the Apollo spacecraft simulator at the Kennedy Space Center. ,IMAGE_pic1\1500_99\543.GIF
106,Apollo 14 commander Alan Shepard stands beside a lunar landing training vehicle, designed to handle like an Apollo lunar module on the Moon. ,IMAGE_pic1\1500_99\544.GIF
106,Apollo 14 commander Alan Shepard stands by the US flag. ,IMAGE_pic1\1500_99\554.GIF
106,Apollo 14 lifts off in the late afternoon of January 31, 1971, heading for the Fra Mauro region of the Moon. ,IMAGE_pic1\1500_99\548.GIF
106,Apollo 14 moonwalker Alan Shepard and his 'golf cart', the MET, or modularized equipment transporter. ,IMAGE_pic1\1900_99\961.GIF
107,Apollo 15 astronauts photographed this beautiful lunar landscape near the edge of the Ocean of Storms, in a region called the Aristarchus Plateau. ,IMAGE_pic1\700_799\719.GIF
107,Apollo 15 command module pilot Alfred Worden trains in the mission simulator at the Kennedy Space Center. ,IMAGE_pic1\1500_99\570.GIF
107,Apollo 15 lands near Mt Hadley, some 4,500 metres high. ,IMAGE_pic1\1500_99\576.GIF
107,Apollo 15 lift-off on July 26, 1971. ,IMAGE_pic1\1500_99\574.GIF
39,Apollo 17 astronaut Eugene Cernan takes the lunar roving vehicle for a test drive before loading it with equipment before the first EVA on December 11, 1972. ,IMAGE_pic1\200_299\218.GIF
22,Apollo 17 astronauts Harrison Schmitt (foreground) and Eugene Cernan rehearse at the Kennedy Space Center for their forthcoming lunar EVA. ,IMAGE_pic1\800_899\874.GIF
99,Apollo 7 edges closer to the Saturn IVB stage above their Cape Canaveral launch site. ,IMAGE_pic1\1400_99\447.GIF
99,Apollo 7 pilot Donn Eisele sports heavy stubble on the ninth day of the mission. ,IMAGE_pic1\1400_99\449.GIF
99,Apollo 7 water egress training in the Gulf of Mexico. The astronauts are, from the left: Walter Schirra, Donn Eisele and Walter Cunningham. ,IMAGE_pic1\1400_99\443.GIF
100,Apollo 8 commander Frank Borman addresses Congress in January 1969, shortly after his crew's pioneering mission to the Moon and back. ,IMAGE_pic1\1900_99\960.GIF
100,Apollo 8 on the launch pad in December 1968, in a pre launch operations check a few days before lift-off. ,IMAGE_pic1\800_899\801.GIF
100,Apollo 8 re-enters the atmosphere, its heat shield blazing, on December 27, 1968. ,IMAGE_pic1\1400_99\467.GIF
101,Apollo 9 splashes down only about 7 km from the recovery ship USS 'Guadalcanal' on March 13, 1969. ,IMAGE_pic1\1400_99\481.GIF
114,Apollo Moon-landing operations: In lunar orbit, the Apollo LM separates from the CSM and drops down towards the lunar surface. It fires its descent engine as a brake to slow down for a soft landing. ,IMAGE_pic1\300_399\315.GIF
114,Apollo Moon-landing operations: Nearing the Moon, the service module's engine fires as a retrobrake to slow down the spacecraft so that it can enter lunar orbit. ,IMAGE_pic1\300_399\314.GIF
114,Apollo re-entry operations: Approaching the Earth at 40,000 km/h, the command module separates from the service module. ,IMAGE_pic1\300_399\316.GIF
114,Apollo re-entry operations: As the command module plunges lower, parachutes open to slow it down further so that it can make a soft splashdown at sea. ,IMAGE_pic1\300_399\319.GIF
114,Apollo re-entry operations: The command module manoeuvres by firing its thrusters so that it enters the atmosphere base first. ,IMAGE_pic1\300_399\317.GIF
114,Apollo re-entry operations: The command module slams into the atmosphere and is slowed down. The heat shield at the base is heated red hot by air friction, and melts and boils away. ,IMAGE_pic1\300_399\318.GIF
426,Ariane 1 lifts off the launch pad to start its first successful flight into orbit on December 24 1979. ,IMAGE_pic1\1400_99\409.GIF
490,Ariel, one of Uranus' moons, is some 850 km across. It is criss-crossed with faults. ,IMAGE_pic1\900_999\930.GIF
55,Artist's impression of a lunar supply base providing raw materials for in-orbit industrial and construction activities. ,IMAGE_pic1\1700_99\725.GIF
55,Artist's impression of bustling activity in the vicinity of Freedom early next century. ,IMAGE_pic1\1900_99\948.GIF
275,Artist's impression of COBE in Earth orbit. It looks at the universe at microwave wavelengths. ,IMAGE_pic1\1000_99\69.GIF
90,Artist's impression of the first space rendezvous, between Gemini 6 and Gemini 7, on December 15, 1965. ,IMAGE_pic1\500_599\566.GIF
113,Artist's impression of the historic link-up between Apollo and Soyuz during the ASTP mission. ,IMAGE_pic1\400_499\416.GIF
100,Artist's impression of the three Apollo 8 astronauts returning to Earth. They will hit the atmosphere travelling at a speed approaching 40,000 km/h. ,IMAGE_pic1\1400_99\466.GIF
127,Artist's impression showing activities in Challenger's payload bay on STS-41C, when astronauts recovered and repaired the satellite Solar Max. ,IMAGE_pic1\700_799\707.GIF
450,Artist's impression showing one of the probes released from the Pioneer-Venus spacecraft on the surface of Venus. ,IMAGE_pic1\500_599\501.GIF
164,As commander Dan Brandenstein manoeuvres Endeavour towards the Intelsat VI comsat, Pierre Thuot stands on the robot arm carrying the grapple bar, designed to latch on to the satellite. It is the second attempt. The first attempt the previous day failed. (STS-49) ,IMAGE_pic1\1200_99\279.GIF
142,As part of the rigorous overhaul of orbiter systems, the forward reaction control system is removed for modification. (STS-26) ,IMAGE_pic1\1900_99\901.GIF
168,As the SRB's exhaust fizzles out, a drogue parachute deploys. ,IMAGE_pic1\1900_99\989.GIF
65,Assembling an N-1 launch vehicle at NASDA's Tanegashima Space Centre. ,IMAGE_pic1\600_699\625.GIF
73,Assisted by skin divers, STS-26 astronauts practice for EVA in the water tank at the Johnson Space Center, Houston. ,IMAGE_pic1\200_299\219.GIF
113,ASTP astronauts Thomas Stafford and Donald Slayton sample Soviet hospitality as they eat from toothpaste-type tubes. ,IMAGE_pic1\400_499\424.GIF
155,Astro-1 ultraviolet image of the spiral galaxy M74, showing regions of intense star formation. (STS-35) ,IMAGE_pic1\1100_99\114.GIF
155,Astro-1 ultraviolet image of the spiral galaxy M81 (left), compared with an image of the same galaxy taken in red light by Kitt Peak astronomers. (STS-35) ,IMAGE_pic1\1100_99\113.GIF
155,Astro-1's ultraviolet imaging telescope recorded this image of the Cygnus loop, a cloud of gas from a stellar explosion about 20,000 years ago. (STS-35) ,IMAGE_pic1\1100_99\111.GIF
155,Astro-l ultraviolet image of the famous Crab nebula, the remnants of a supernova explosion that the Chinese witnessed in AD 1054. (STS-35) ,IMAGE_pic1\1100_99\112.GIF
108,Astronaut's tools of the trade, a scoop to take samples (left) and geological hammer. (Apollo 16) ,IMAGE_pic1\1600_99\606.GIF
22,Astronaut-geologist Harrison Schmitt pictured with the lunar rover at the Taurus-Littrow landing site on Apollo 17. ,IMAGE_pic1\800_899\822.GIF
35,Astronauts in training. They are enjoying a brief period of simulated weightlessness in the KC-135 'zero-g' aircraft, which flies up and over in a sharp curve. ,IMAGE_pic1\800_899\844.GIF
61,Astronauts on STS-51B/Spacelab 3 were treated to a glorious display of aurora, uniquely looking at it from above. ,IMAGE_pic1\100_199\140.GIF
73,Astronauts practise for EVA in the water tank at the Johnson Space Center, Houston. They are working in a shuttle orbiter mock-up. ,IMAGE_pic1\700_799\750.GIF
2,At a ceremony at the White House, President John F Kennedy congratulates Alan Shepard on his flight into space in Freedom 7 on May 5, 1961. Other Mercury astronauts look on. ,IMAGE_pic1\100_199\122.GIF
179,At Edwards Air Force Base in California, Endeavour is mounted atop the shuttle carrier aircraft, ready for its journey to the Kennedy Space Center on May 7, 1991. ,IMAGE_pic1\1000_99\3.GIF
70,At NASA's Langley Research Center, a novel 'tail-first' light plane design is tested in a wind tunnel. ,IMAGE_pic1\400_499\490.GIF
431,At the end on a mission, Hermes jettisons the rear resource module and plunges belly-first into the atmosphere. Its heat- shield glows red-hot because of friction with the air. ,IMAGE_pic1\1300_99\375.GIF
304,At the EROS Data Center in South Dakota a researcher is analysing a Landsat image of Hawaii. ,IMAGE_pic1\800_899\872.GIF
74,At the Florida Space Camp would-be astronauts try their hand at designing a space structure. ,IMAGE_pic1\1300_99\353.GIF
161,Atlantis heads for orbit in the early morning of November 24, 1991. The 'shock diamonds' in the main engine exhausts are particularly noticeable. (STS-44) ,IMAGE_pic1\1200_99\209.GIF
137,Atlantis leaps from the pad into cloudy skies on its maiden flight (STS-51J), a Department of Defence classified mission. ,IMAGE_pic1\800_899\861.GIF
151,Atlantis punches its way into the heavens in the early morning of February 28, 1990, on a Department of Defence mission. (STS-36) ,IMAGE_pic1\1000_99\37.GIF
348,Atlantis' RMS arm lifts Eureca from the payload bay in deployment operations on August 1, 1992. The shuttle is passing over the Persian Gulf at the time. ,IMAGE_pic1\1300_99\310b.GIF
166,Atlantis' robot arm lifts the European retrievable satellite Eureca out of the payload bay, at the end of which can be seen the tethered satellite system. (STS-46) ,IMAGE_pic1\1300_99\313.GIF
386,Atlas-Agena takes to the skies. This launch took place on July 18, 1966, shortly before the Gemini 10 mission. ,IMAGE_pic1\1600_99\637a.GIF
377,Atop its IUS booster, TDRS 5 leaves Atlantis' payload bay just six hours after reaching orbit. (STS-43) ,IMAGE_pic1\1100_99\173.GIF
103,Back on Earth, the antics of the Apollo 11 astronauts riveted hundreds of millions of televiewers. ,IMAGE_pic1\1500_99\505.GIF
159,Backdropped by bubbling clouds, TDRS 5 waits to be boosted to geostationary orbit at 174 west longitude. (STS-43) ,IMAGE_pic1\1100_99\174.GIF
35,Baikonur Space Museum, showing cosmonaut wear for on-board and for EVA and a Soyuz model. ,IMAGE_pic1\300_399\371.GIF
60,Bathed in the glow of a Florida sunset, the Skylab 1/Saturn V launch vehicle is being readied for launch in May 1973. ,IMAGE_pic1\500_599\589.GIF
109,Before the Apollo 17 astronauts left the Moon, they uncovered a plaque on their lunar module, commemorating their mission. ,IMAGE_pic1\1600_99\630.GIF
65,Blasting off the pad at NASDA's Tanegashima launch site is an N-1 launch vehicle carrying a communications satellite. ,IMAGE_pic1\200_299\212.GIF
138,Bonnie Dunbar takes part in a Spacelab biomedical test. (STS-61A) ,IMAGE_pic1\1800_99\891.GIF
165,Bonnie Dunbar, payload commander on the USML mission, unloads experimental equipment. (STS-50) ,IMAGE_pic1\1300_99\302.GIF
167,Bound for the Kennedy Space Center, a shuttle carrier aircraft lifts off from Edwards Air Force Base, carrying an orbiter. ,IMAGE_pic1\700_799\789.GIF
106,Braked by three huge parachutes, the Apollo 14 command module returns to Earth on February 9, 1971. ,IMAGE_pic1\1500_99\562.GIF
455,Bright jets of gas stream from the potato-shaped nucleus of Halley's comet, in this picture taken by Giotto. ,IMAGE_pic1\200_299\281.GIF
111,Bright points on the Sun, photographed by Skylab's solar telescopes. They are tiny sources of ultraviolet and X-rays in that appear in the Sun's upper atmosphere. ,IMAGE_pic1\300_399\338.GIF
431,Britain's Hotol design, which uses air-breathing engines for its journey through the atmosphere. ,IMAGE_pic1\1300_99\361.GIF
15,Bruce McCandless (left) and Robert Stewart work in Challenger's payload bay. Note the open hatch from the airlock. (STS-41B) ,IMAGE_pic1\1800_99\817.GIF
15,Bruce McCandless and Robert Stewart work in the aft section of the payload bay during EVA activities. (STS-41B) ,IMAGE_pic1\1800_99\818.GIF
152,Bruce McCandless climbs out of his spacesuit, as does Kathryn Sullivan (out of the picture), when their services are not required during HST deployment. (STS-31) ,IMAGE_pic1\1000_99\55.GIF
15,Bruce McCandless in training for STS-41B, strapped in the manned manoeuvring unit (MMU) which he will test-fly on the mission. ,IMAGE_pic1\1800_99\816a.GIF
15,Bruce McCandless jets up to 90 metres away from Challenger when testing the MMU on STS-41B in February 1984. ,IMAGE_pic1\0_99\99.GIF
15,Bruce McCandless rides the 'cherry picker' on the RMS arm during STS-41B. Its proper name is the mobile foot restraint. ,IMAGE_pic1\800_899\820.GIF
164,Bruce Melnick checks out his flight suit. (STS-49) ,IMAGE_pic1\1200_99\275.GIF
142,Building one of the twin SRBs for the shuttle in the VAB at the Kennedy Space Center. (STS-26) ,IMAGE_pic1\500_599\522.GIF
72,Buran is enveloped by access platforms at Baikonur in March 1991. ,IMAGE_pic1\300_399\384.GIF
72,Buran touches down on the runway at Baikonur after a triumphant unmanned maiden flight on November 15, 1988. ,IMAGE_pic1\300_399\381.GIF
72,Buran, mounted on Energia, is being checked out on the launch pad at Baikonur in November 1988. ,IMAGE_pic1\300_399\380.GIF
72,Buran/Energia launch complex at Baikonur, showing flame trench. ,IMAGE_pic1\300_399\383.GIF
397,Business end of one of Energia's liquid-fuelled boosters. ,IMAGE_pic1\300_399\389.GIF
365,Cameras like this are used to track satellites; this one is located at Woomera, Australia. ,IMAGE_pic1\700_799\769.GIF
129,Canadian astronaut Marc Garneau handling one of the Canadian experiments carried on STS-41G. ,IMAGE_pic1\1800_99\829.GIF
162,Canadian payload specialist Roberta Bondar works at the biorack, while Stephen Oswald changes a film magazine on the IMAX camera carried in the IML module. ,IMAGE_pic1\1200_99\232.GIF
177,Canadian payload specialist Steven Maclean demonstrates his gymnastic skills on the aft flight deck of Columbia. (STS-52) ,IMAGE_pic1\1900_99\934.GIF
117,Carried by the massive crawler transporter, the shuttle stack for STS-1 makes its way at about 2 km/h along the crawlerway to the launch pad. ,IMAGE_pic1\0_99\64.GIF
431,Carried high into the atmosphere, the orbiter element of the Sanger spaceplane separates from its carrier and ignites its engine, which will boost it into orbit. ,IMAGE_pic1\1300_99\360.GIF
459,Carrying space probe Ulysses, shuttle orbiter Discovery soars from the launch pad on October 6, 1990, on the STS-41 mission. ,IMAGE_pic1\1300_99\382.GIF
103,Carrying suit respirators, the Apollo 11 crew leave the suiting- up room at the Kennedy Space Center a few hours before lift-off on July 16, 1969. ,IMAGE_pic1\0_99\73.GIF
156,Carrying the GRO, Atlantis begins its journey into space on April 5, 1991. (STS-37) ,IMAGE_pic1\1100_99\117.GIF
153,Carrying the Ulysses probe, Discovery streaks away from the launch pad on October 6, 1990. (STS-41) ,IMAGE_pic1\1000_99\85.GIF
165,Carrying the USML, Spacelab-type laboratory, and modified for the first long-duration shuttle mission, Columbia powers its way into a cloudy sky on June 25, 1992. (STS-50) ,IMAGE_pic1\1200_99\298.GIF
497,Central region of the Andromeda galaxy, showing the central bulge and the dark spaces between the spiral arms. Note the faint satellite trail over the image. ,IMAGE_pic1\900_999\937.GIF
123,Challenger in orbit on its second trip into space (STS-7). The picture was taken by the SPAS-1 satellite it had just launched. ,IMAGE_pic1\700_799\705.GIF
123,Challenger in orbit on STS-7, photographed from the temporary satellite SPAS-1. ,IMAGE_pic1\700_799\751.GIF
138,Challenger lifts spectacularly from the pad on October 30, 1985, on what was to be its final full mission. (STS-61A) ,IMAGE_pic1\1800_99\886.GIF
126,Challenger sits on the launch pad the night before it lifted off on its fourth and the shuttle's tenth space flight (STS-41B). ,IMAGE_pic1\800_899\860.GIF
126,Challenger touches down on the runway at the Kennedy Space Center on February 11, 1984, at the end of the STS-41B mission. ,IMAGE_pic1\0_99\37.GIF
8,Challenger's crew for the STS-41G flight leave for the launch pad on October 5, 1984. They are (from the front and from the left): Kathryn Sullivan, Robert Crippen, Sally Ride, Paul Scully-Power, David Leestma, Jon McBride and Marc Garneau. ,IMAGE_pic1\0_99\40.GIF
124,Challenger's robot arm lifts the payload flight test article (PFTA) out of the payload bay. (STS-8) ,IMAGE_pic1\1800_99\809.GIF
127,Challenger's robot arm places the LDEF (long-duration exposure facility) in orbit on STS-41C. ,IMAGE_pic1\800_899\882.GIF
135,Challengers blasts off the launch pad on NASA's 50th manned mission, on July 29, 1985. (STS-51F) ,IMAGE_pic1\1800_99\873.GIF
51,Charles Conrad at work in the cavernous Skylab space station. (Skylab 2) ,IMAGE_pic1\1600_99\690.GIF
108,Charles Duke salutes the newly deployed US flag, as is traditional. (Apollo 16) ,IMAGE_pic1\1600_99\600a.GIF
108,Charles Duke trains on a simulated lunar surface at the Kennedy Space Center. (Apollo 16) ,IMAGE_pic1\1500_99\595.GIF
17,Checking over Spacelab before its first mission are Spacelab 1 astronauts Ulf Merbold (left) and Owen Garriott. ,IMAGE_pic1\0_99\87.GIF
103,Chicago gives a fabulous ticker-tape welcome for the visiting Apollo 11 astronauts. ,IMAGE_pic1\1500_99\517.GIF
29,Chimpanzee Ham being readied for his suborbital flight in a Mercury capsule in January 1961. ,IMAGE_pic1\700_799\713.GIF
29,Chimpanzee Ham in training for his forthcoming space flight (January 1961). With other primates, he is trained at Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico. ,IMAGE_pic1\1600_99\663.GIF
141,Christa McAuliffe in training for the fateful STS-51L flight of Challenger. She was aiming to become the first teacher in space. ,IMAGE_pic1\800_899\864.GIF
448,Close-up of Neptune's Great Dark Spot and another dark storm centre. (Voyager 2) ,IMAGE_pic1\600_699\609.GIF
174,Close-up of part of the MELEO experiment panel on the robot arm, exposing a variety of materials to space. (STS-52) ,IMAGE_pic1\1900_99\941.GIF
107,Close-up of sunflower tissue growing quite happily in the presence of soil brought back from the Apollo 15 landing site. ,IMAGE_pic1\1500_99\594.GIF
483,Close-up of the lunar surface, showing the prominent craters Copernicus (right) and Eratosthenes. ,IMAGE_pic1\900_999\964.GIF
448,Close-up of the surface of Miranda, one of Uranus' moons (Voyager 2 photo), showing crazy terrain. ,IMAGE_pic1\200_299\249.GIF
357,Cloud cover over the Atlantic, Europe and Africa, as pictured by a Meteosat weather satellite. ,IMAGE_pic1\800_899\813.GIF
446,Clouds gather on the slopes of the biggest volcano in the Solar System, Olympus Mons on Mars, five times the height of Everest and 600 km across at the base. This painting is based on Viking photographs. ,IMAGE_pic1\200_299\232.GIF
117,Columbia cuts loose its external tank as it coasts into orbit. (STS-1) ,IMAGE_pic1\1700_99\773.GIF
121,Columbia has backed away from Anik C3. Soon the PAM booster underneath will fire to boost the satellite to geostationary orbit. (STS-5) ,IMAGE_pic1\1700_99\788.GIF
120,Columbia heads for the heavens for the fourth time, on June 27, 1982. (STS-4) ,IMAGE_pic1\1700_99\781.GIF
177,Columbia is lowered on to the shuttle stack in the VAB in preparation for its first flight into orbit. ,IMAGE_pic1\0_99\65.GIF
119,Columbia leaves billowing clouds of dust in its wake as it makes a perfect landing at the White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico, at the end of STS-3. ,IMAGE_pic1\800_899\848.GIF
158,Columbia passes over the USA. The view is looking north-north- east over the Great Lakes region. In the centre is Lake Michigan, with Chicago at its southern edge. (STS-40) ,IMAGE_pic1\1100_99\164.GIF
118,Columbia pictured over California near the completion of its second flight into space (STS-2), gliding towards touchdown at Edwards Air Force Base. ,IMAGE_pic1\900_999\908.GIF
118,Columbia sits atop the shuttle stack on the pad on November 11, 1981. Next day it will attempt its second flight into orbit. ,IMAGE_pic1\0_99\62.GIF
158,Columbia soars into the Florida sky in the early morning of June 5, 1991, on the first Spacelab life-sciences mission. (STS-40) ,IMAGE_pic1\1100_99\153.GIF
177,Columbia starts its journey into space on October 22, 1992, heading for a 10-day mission of satellite launching and experimentation. (STS-52) ,IMAGE_pic1\1900_99\933.GIF
177,Columbia under construction. Technicians at Rockwell International's Downey facility attach heat shield tiles to the underside. ,IMAGE_pic1\700_799\781.GIF
165,Columbia's pilot Kenneth Bowersox services the carbon dioxide removal system on the mid-deck. (STS-50) ,IMAGE_pic1\1300_99\303.GIF
150,Columbia's RMS arm captures the LDEF (long-duration exposure facility), which has been in space for five and a half years. (STS-32) ,IMAGE_pic1\1000_99\29.GIF
150,Columbia's RMS arm slowly manoeuvres the LDEF towards the payload bay after capture. The Atlantic coast of Namibia, Africa, serves as a backdrop. (STS-32) ,IMAGE_pic1\1000_99\31.GIF
177,Columbia, with most of its tiles in place, is pictured in March 1979 at the Rockwell assembly plant at Palmdale. ,IMAGE_pic1\800_899\870.GIF
269,Comet Bradfield, imaged by the long-lived International Ultraviolet Explorer. ,IMAGE_pic1\1400_99\401.GIF
111,Comet Kohoutek, snapped in false colour by Skylab astronauts. Astronomers hoped it would be "the comet of the century", but in the event it proved to be disappointingly faint. ,IMAGE_pic1\300_399\337.GIF
163,Commander Charles Bolden speaks to radio 'hams' on Earth from his seat on Atlantis' flight deck. (STS-45) ,IMAGE_pic1\1200_99\258.GIF
138,Commander Henry Hartsfield and pilot Steven Nagel discuss flight operations during the Spacelab D1 mission. (STS-61A) ,IMAGE_pic1\1800_99\892.GIF
132,Commander Karol Bobko helps Jeffrey Hoffman with his spacesuit as he and David Griggs (right) get ready for EVA to try to activate Leasat 3. (STS-51D) ,IMAGE_pic1\1800_99\857.GIF
46,Comparison between the one-man Mercury and the two-man Gemini spacecraft. ,IMAGE_pic1\1600_99\676.GIF
448,Computer processing of Voyager 2 data emphasizes in false colours the difference in composition in the B ring particles. ,IMAGE_pic1\200_299\238.GIF
70,Computer simulation carried out At the Lewis Research Center showing flow patterns over the blades of counter-rotating propfans. ,IMAGE_pic1\400_499\494.GIF
167,Computer simulation of surface air-flow patterns over the space shuttle orbiter during design tests. ,IMAGE_pic1\300_399\357.GIF
431,Computer simulation showing the heat distribution on Hermes during re-entry through the atmosphere. ,IMAGE_pic1\1300_99\366.GIF
459,Computer view of Ulysses in flight configuration. The boom at top left, measuring 5.6 metres, long, carries two magnetometers, solar X-ray and gamma-ray burst detectors, and a search coil for detecting magnetic waves. The device coloured blue is a nuclear- powered electrical source. ,IMAGE_pic1\1300_99\381.GIF
167,Conducting high-speed wind-tunnel tests on a scale model of the shuttle orbiter. ,IMAGE_pic1\800_899\842.GIF
68,Controllers working at the communications consoles at ESOC during a mission. ,IMAGE_pic1\1400_99\422.GIF
162,Convection currents induced by heating an oil and aluminium powder mixture in a zero-gravity experiment on IML-1. (STS-42) ,IMAGE_pic1\1200_99\228.GIF
14,Cosmonaut Alexei Leonov emerges from the hatch of Voshkod 2 to make the first ever EVA on March 18, 1965. ,IMAGE_pic1\400_499\407.GIF
361,Covered with solar cells, a GOES weather satellite inside the nose fairing atop a Delta launch vehicle as flight preparations continue at Complex 17 at Cape Canaveral. ,IMAGE_pic1\500_599\588.GIF
165,Crew patch for STS-50, the first US microgravity laboratory (USML) mission. It features a USML banner trailing from the shuttle orbiter payload bay. ,IMAGE_pic1\1200_99\297.GIF
118,Crew patch for the STS-2 mission. ,IMAGE_pic1\1600_99\677.GIF
157,Crew patch for the STS-39 mission. It features the American national symbol, the eagle, in the form of the constellation Aquila, the Eagle. The spectrum represents the radiation various scientific instruments will be monitoring during the mission. ,IMAGE_pic1\1100_99\132.GIF
158,Crew patch for the STS-40 Spacelab Life Sciences mission, devoted mainly to medical and biological studies. In the design the orbiter's flight path represents the double helix of the key life molecule, DNA. ,IMAGE_pic1\1100_99\149.GIF
162,Crew patch for the STS-42 mission, the 4 indicated by four white stars on the left of the orbiter and the 2 by the two on the right. The gold star honours the memory of astronaut Sonny Carter, killed earlier in the year in a plane crash. IML stands for international microgravity laboratory. ,IMAGE_pic1\1200_99\223a.GIF
161,Crew patch for the STS-44 Department of Defence mission. It pictures Atlantic ascending to Earth orbit to expand man's knowledge. The six large stars represent the crew of six and the hopes that travel with them. ,IMAGE_pic1\1200_99\207.GIF
163,Crew patch for the STS-45 mission, devoted to study of the Earth and space environment with the ATLAS (atmospheric laboratory for applications and science). It features prominently the Earth, and the setting Sun, the colours of which will be measured to monitor gases in the atmosphere. ,IMAGE_pic1\1200_99\243.GIF
166,Crew patch for the STS-46 mission, which depicts the two main elements of the mission, the retrievable European satellite Eureca and the tethered satellite system. ,IMAGE_pic1\1300_99\311.GIF
160,Crew patch for the STS-48 mission. UARS stands for upper atmosphere research satellite. The triangle above represents the relationship between three key atmospheric processes - chemistry, dynamics and energy. ,IMAGE_pic1\1100_99\189.GIF
30,Crew patch, or emblem for Gemini 5, August 1965; the first official US mission emblem. Every US mission since has had such an emblem. The mission featured Cooper and Conrad. ,IMAGE_pic1\400_499\430.GIF
157,Crew portrait for the STS-39 mission, showing the astronauts in their partial pressure flight suits. They are, from the left: Lacy Veach, Donald McMonagle, Gregory Narbaugh, Michael Coats, Blaine Hammond, Richard Hieb and Guion Bluford. ,IMAGE_pic1\1100_99\133.GIF
155,Crew portrait of the STS-35 astronauts, who are (from the left): Robert Parker, Guy Gardner, Ronald Parise, Vance Brand, Jeffrey Hoffman, Mike Lounge and Samuel Durrance. ,IMAGE_pic1\1100_99\101.GIF
179,Crew portrait of the STS-47 crew. They are, from the left: Jan Davis, Curtis Brown, Mark Lee, Jay Apt, Mamoru Mohri, Robert Gibson and Mae Jemison. ,IMAGE_pic1\1300_99\340.GIF
68,Cutaway revealing some of test facilities at ESA's European Space Research and Technology Centre (ESTEC) at Noordwijk in the Netherlands. ,IMAGE_pic1\1400_99\423.GIF
130,Dale Gardner prepares to dock with the slowly spinning Westar, using the 'stinger', or apogee kick motor capture device. (STS- 51A) ,IMAGE_pic1\1800_99\842.GIF
130,Dale Gardner starts to manoeuvre Palapa into position for stowing in the payload bay. Joseph Allen is busy on the right. (STS-51A) ,IMAGE_pic1\1800_99\839.GIF
144,Daniel Brandenstein in a shuttle training aircraft snaps this spectacular picture as Atlantis punches its way into the skies on December 7, 1988. (STS-27) ,IMAGE_pic1\1900_99\910.GIF
124,Daniel Brandenstein, STS-8 pilot, communicates with Mission Control. ,IMAGE_pic1\1800_99\811.GIF
459,Data relating to Ulysses, the first probe to explore the Sun's polar regions. ,IMAGE_pic1\1300_99\380.GIF
151,David Hilmers uses a large-format camera to photograph the Earth from the aft flight deck of Atlantis. (STS-36) ,IMAGE_pic1\1000_99\39.GIF
162,David Hilmers, wearing an instrumented helmet assembly, sits in the MVI chair during an IML experiment into body balance. ,IMAGE_pic1\1200_99\235.GIF
129,David Leestma and Kathryn Sullivan on EVA in Challenger's payload bay during the STS-41G mission. ,IMAGE_pic1\700_799\748.GIF
129,David Leestma at work in the aft section of Challenger's payload bay. (STS-41G) ,IMAGE_pic1\1800_99\831.GIF
163,David Leestma takes a sample of the cabin air with a microbial air sampler during checks on on-board air monitoring equipment. (STS-45) ,IMAGE_pic1\1200_99\261.GIF
150,David Low gets in some exercise on the treadmill. (STS-32) ,IMAGE_pic1\1000_99\27.GIF
159,David Low works out on the shuttle treadmill during a medical test. (STS-43) ,IMAGE_pic1\1100_99\180.GIF
101,David Scott performs a standing EVA in 'Gumdrop' on the fourth day of the Apollo 9 mission. ,IMAGE_pic1\1400_99\472.GIF
107,David Scott records the location of a piece of white rock (on the mound in the middle), which he returns to Earth. The device on the right is a gnomon, which shows Sun angle. (Apollo 15) ,IMAGE_pic1\1500_99\584.GIF
107,David Scott salutes by the deployed US flag alongside the lunar module 'Falcon'. (Apollo 15) ,IMAGE_pic1\1500_99\579.GIF
101,David Scott standing in the open hatch of 'Gumdrop'. (Apollo 9) ,IMAGE_pic1\1400_99\473.GIF
107,David Scott works with a lunar drill. (Apollo 15) ,IMAGE_pic1\1500_99\585.GIF
74,Decorating the Vehicle Assembly Building at the Kennedy Space Center are the 'Stars and Stripes' and the bicentennial symbol painted on it in America's bicentennial year, 1976. ,IMAGE_pic1\500_599\557.GIF
55,Demonstrating the crew accommodation inside the ACRV. ,IMAGE_pic1\1900_99\952.GIF
488,Despite inherent design flaws, the Hubble space telescope soon begins returning excellent images of the heavens, such as this picture of the giant planet Jupiter. ,IMAGE_pic1\1000_99\59.GIF
107,Despite reflections from the CSM's window, this photograph shows a fascinating lunar landscape beneath. (Apollo 15) ,IMAGE_pic1\1500_99\589.GIF
105,Despite their hazardous predicament, the Apollo 13 astronauts found time to photograph the lunar surface. The picture shows one of the few seas on the far side of the Moon, Mare Moscoviense, the Sea of Moscow. ,IMAGE_pic1\200_299\217.GIF
498,Detailed view of the North American nebula in Cygnus, showing its uncanny likeness to that continent. ,IMAGE_pic1\900_999\957.GIF
448,Details of the structure and instruments of the Voyager probe. ,IMAGE_pic1\100_199\145.GIF
437,Director of Jet Propulsion Laboratory William Pickering shows an album of Mariner 4 photos to space enthusiast and President, Lyndon Johnson. ,IMAGE_pic1\1700_99\749.GIF
5,Director of the Marshall Space Flight Center, Wernher von Braun, in 1969, with his brainchild, the Saturn IB launch vehicle in the background. This was used to launch the first manned Earth-orbit Apollo mission, Apollo 7, and the Skylab astronauts. ,IMAGE_pic1\100_199\186.GIF
153,Discovery jettisons its external tank after about 8 minutes after lift-off on October 6, 1990. (STS-41) ,IMAGE_pic1\1000_99\86.GIF
142,Discovery leaves the TDRS behind after a successful deployment. Later the TDRS will head for geostationary orbit. (STS-26) ,IMAGE_pic1\1900_99\906.GIF
142,Discovery lifts off the launch pad on September 29, 1988, on the STS-26 mission to take the US into space for the first time since the Challenger disaster. ,IMAGE_pic1\400_499\497.GIF
136,Discovery makes a spectacular dawn lift-off on August 27, 1985, aiming for another satellite capture. (STS-51I) ,IMAGE_pic1\1800_99\882.GIF
131,Discovery thunders skywards on STS-51C, in January 1985. ,IMAGE_pic1\600_699\647.GIF
130,Discovery's astronauts get down to the business of capturing satellites on STS-51A. First, Joseph Allen flies the MMU out to Palapa B2. ,IMAGE_pic1\1800_99\836.GIF
130,Discovery's crew celebrates the highly successful STS-51A mission, two satellites deployed, two captured. They are, from the left: front, David Walker, Anna Fisher and Joseph Allen; back, Dale Gardner and Frederick Hauck. ,IMAGE_pic1\1800_99\847.GIF
160,Discovery's crew picture the dense black pall of smoke from the burning Kuwaiti oilfields after the Gulf War. (STS-48) ,IMAGE_pic1\1100_99\198.GIF
157,Discovery's crew turn their cameras on the south polar regions of the Earth to record a fascinating display of the aurora australis, or Southern Lights. (STS-39) ,IMAGE_pic1\1100_99\146.GIF
178,Discovery's RMS arm gradually lifts the HST out of the payload bay. (STS-31) ,IMAGE_pic1\1000_99\51.GIF
277,Discovery's RMS arm lifts the 11-tonne HST from the payload bay on April 25, 1990, with the Earth some 600 km below. ,IMAGE_pic1\1000_99\58e.GIF
160,Discovery's RMS arm lifts the UARS from the payload bay and places it in orbit. The solar array is gradually unfolding. (STS-48) ,IMAGE_pic1\1100_99\194.GIF
157,Discovery's RMS arm releases the shuttle pallet satellite, SPAS- II, to collect data in free flight. (STS-39) ,IMAGE_pic1\1100_99\139.GIF
61,Don Lind works in Spacelab on the STS-51B/Spacelab 3 mission. ,IMAGE_pic1\800_899\850.GIF
122,Donald Peterson (left) and Story Musgrave evaluate the new shuttle spacesuits. (STS-6) ,IMAGE_pic1\1700_99\798.GIF
5,Dr Wernher von Braun, who worked on the V-2 in World War 2 and who afterwards masterminded the USA's space programme. ,IMAGE_pic1\800_899\808.GIF
74,Dressed in astronaut gear, a future astronaut sits at the console of mission control during a simulated shuttle mission at Florida Space Camp. ,IMAGE_pic1\1300_99\356.GIF
487,During a future manned mission to Mars, astronauts deploy a large solar-cell array to produce electricity. ,IMAGE_pic1\500_599\505.GIF
483,Early next century a permanent Moon base will be established. Here a lunar ferry from Earth has just arrived at the landing facility. ,IMAGE_pic1\500_599\512.GIF
68,Early next century Freedom should be operational. This view focuses on the main modules, showing the two US modules (one cutaway) and the Columbus (European) and NASDA (Japanese) ones. ,IMAGE_pic1\100_199\110.GIF
60,Earth photography by Skylab, showing San Francisco Bay and the Sacramento River. This was part of the Earth-resources experiments package (EREP) programme. ,IMAGE_pic1\600_699\680.GIF
127,Earth photography: cellular-type clouds over the Atlantic, photographed by the crew of STS-41C. ,IMAGE_pic1\800_899\812.GIF
95,Earth photography: Gemini 11 photograph of Libya, September 1966. ,IMAGE_pic1\500_599\571.GIF
95,Earth photography: Gemini 11 photograph of the Egypt, Sudan and Saudi Arabia. ,IMAGE_pic1\500_599\572.GIF
96,Earth photography: Gemini 12 astronauts snapped this picture of Earth in November 1966. ,IMAGE_pic1\500_599\570.GIF
368,Earth photography: infrared photograph of the Gulf of California, showing vegetation (red) growing in the irrigated valley. ,IMAGE_pic1\800_899\856.GIF
74,Earth photography: shuttle astronauts shot this picture of Cape Canaveral, which clearly shows Complex 39, with the VAB, the two launch pads and the shuttle runway. ,IMAGE_pic1\800_899\873.GIF
483,Earth, atmosphere, Moon and space. The atmosphere is blue because of the way the air particles scatter sunlight. ,IMAGE_pic1\700_799\743.GIF
306,Earth-resources imaging: Death Valley, from Landsat 4's thematic mapper. ,IMAGE_pic1\700_799\741.GIF
306,Earth-resources imaging: Landsat mosaic of Hawaii in simulated natural colour. Note the extensive lava flows from the central massive volcano, Mauna Loa. ,IMAGE_pic1\600_699\690.GIF
368,Earth-resources imaging: shuttle imaging radar picture of the Suwannee River, Florida, taken at night. Cultivated areas are coloured dark green and purple. ,IMAGE_pic1\800_899\865.GIF
368,Earth-resources imaging: shuttle imaging radar picture showing interesting rock structure in the Peruvian Andes. ,IMAGE_pic1\800_899\867.GIF
306,Earth-resources imaging: the twin cities of Minneapolis/St Pauls (blue-grey) are seen near the top of this image, from Landsat 5. ,IMAGE_pic1\800_899\810.GIF
304,Earth-resources photography: Landsat view of the coast and fertile coastal plains of South Carolina, USA. ,IMAGE_pic1\600_699\682.GIF
68,Earthnet processed Landsat data to get this simulated natural colour image of Europe. ,IMAGE_pic1\1400_99\429.GIF
106,Edgar Mitchell consults a map as he explores the Moon. (Apollo 14) ,IMAGE_pic1\1500_99\555.GIF
111,Edward Gibson at the controls of the Apollo telescope mount during the second manned Skylab mission (Skylab 3). ,IMAGE_pic1\900_999\913.GIF
51,Edward Gibson spacewalking, a still from an on-board Skylab movie. (Skylab 4) ,IMAGE_pic1\1700_99\708.GIF
88,Edward White floats high above the clouds on his 1965 EVA. Note the hand manoeuvring gun in his right hand. ,IMAGE_pic1\500_599\561.GIF
27,Edward White floats in space during the first ever US EVA from Gemini 4 in June 1965. He is secured by an umbilical/tether. ,IMAGE_pic1\700_799\716.GIF
27,Edward White relishing the sensation of spacewalking on the Gemini 4 mission. Note the reflections in his gold-tinted vizor. ,IMAGE_pic1\500_599\564.GIF
27,Edward White tumbles head over heels on his historic EVA from Gemini 4. ,IMAGE_pic1\500_599\559.GIF
27,Edward White tumbles head over heels on his spacewalk on June 3, 1965. He is holding a hand-manoeuvring jet gun. ,IMAGE_pic1\100_199\104.GIF
103,Edwin Aldrin about to set up two experiments, a laser reflector and a seismometer. (Apollo 11) ,IMAGE_pic1\1500_99\509.GIF
103,Edwin Aldrin and the US flag, stiffened to 'fly' on the airless Moon. (Apollo 11) ,IMAGE_pic1\1500_99\502.GIF
6,Edwin Aldrin during his stand-up EVA, preparing to install an external camera. ,IMAGE_pic1\1600_99\660.GIF
6,Edwin Aldrin during his stand-up EVA. (Gemini 12) ,IMAGE_pic1\1600_99\659.GIF
6,Edwin Aldrin in the Apollo 11 lunar module after walking on the Moon. ,IMAGE_pic1\800_899\827.GIF
103,Edwin Aldrin inspects one of the landing legs of 'Eagle'. ,IMAGE_pic1\1400_99\499.GIF
6,Edwin Aldrin sets up the solar wind experiment near the lunar module Eagle during the Apollo 11 mission. ,IMAGE_pic1\300_399\322.GIF
103,Edwin Aldrin slithers out of the exit hatch of the lunar module 'Eagle'. (Apollo 11) ,IMAGE_pic1\1400_99\498.GIF
6,Edwin Aldrin steps down from the Apollo 11 LM Eagle to become the second man on the Moon. ,IMAGE_pic1\700_799\747.GIF
275,Effectively a cross-sectional view of our galaxy, produced from data returned by COBE at infrared wavelengths. The central bulge of the galaxy is clearly evident. ,IMAGE_pic1\1000_99\71.GIF
30,Emblem for Apollo 10, May 1969: Stafford, Young, Cernan. ,IMAGE_pic1\400_499\442.GIF
30,Emblem for Apollo 11, July 1969: Armstrong, Aldrin, Collins. The first Moon landing. ,IMAGE_pic1\400_499\443.GIF
30,Emblem for Apollo 12, November 1969: Conrad, Gordon, Bean. ,IMAGE_pic1\400_499\444.GIF
30,Emblem for Apollo 13, April 1970: Lovell, Swigert, Haise. A near disaster following an in-flight explosion. ,IMAGE_pic1\400_499\445.GIF
30,Emblem for Apollo 14, January 1971: Shepard, Roosa, Mitchell. ,IMAGE_pic1\400_499\446.GIF
30,Emblem for Apollo 15, July 1971: Scott, Worden, Irwin. First use of the lunar roving vehicle. ,IMAGE_pic1\400_499\447.GIF
30,Emblem for Apollo 16, April 1972: Young, Mattingly, Duke. ,IMAGE_pic1\400_499\448.GIF
30,Emblem for Apollo 7, October 1968: Schirra, Eisele and Cunningham. The first manned Apollo mission. ,IMAGE_pic1\400_499\439.GIF
30,Emblem for Apollo 8, December 1968: Borman, Lovell and Anders. The first circumnavigation of the Moon. ,IMAGE_pic1\400_499\440.GIF
30,Emblem for Apollo 9, March 1969: McDivitt, Scott, Schweickart. ,IMAGE_pic1\400_499\441.GIF
30,Emblem for Gemini 10, July 1966: Young and Collins. ,IMAGE_pic1\400_499\435.GIF
30,Emblem for Gemini 11, September 1966: Conrad and Gordon. ,IMAGE_pic1\400_499\436.GIF
30,Emblem for Gemini 12, November 1966: Lovell and Aldrin. ,IMAGE_pic1\400_499\437.GIF
30,Emblem for Gemini 6, December 1965: Schirra and Stafford. GTA stands for Gemini-Titan-Agena. Agena was the docking target. ,IMAGE_pic1\400_499\431.GIF
30,Emblem for Gemini 7, December 1965: Borman and Stafford. ,IMAGE_pic1\400_499\432.GIF
30,Emblem for Gemini 8, March 1966: Armstrong and Scott. ,IMAGE_pic1\400_499\433.GIF
30,Emblem for Gemini 9, June 1966: Stafford and Cernan. ,IMAGE_pic1\400_499\434.GIF
30,Emblem for Skylab 2, confusingly named here Skylab 1, May 1973: Conrad, Kerwin, Weitz. First manned mission to Skylab. ,IMAGE_pic1\400_499\449.GIF
30,Emblem for Skylab 4, November 1973: Carr, Gibson, Pogue. Last mission to Skylab. ,IMAGE_pic1\400_499\450.GIF
30,Emblem for Spacelab 2 mission (STS-51F). ,IMAGE_pic1\400_499\479.GIF
30,Emblem for STS-1, Columbia, April 1981: Young, Crippen. First space shuttle mission. ,IMAGE_pic1\400_499\454.GIF
30,Emblem for STS-26, Discovery, September 1988: Hauck, Covey, Lounge, Hilmers, Nelson. First post Challenger disaster flight. ,IMAGE_pic1\400_499\462.GIF
30,Emblem for STS-27, Atlantis, December 1988: Gibson, Mullane, Ross, Shepherd, Gardner. ,IMAGE_pic1\400_499\463.GIF
30,Emblem for STS-28, Columbia, August 1989: Adamson, Leestma, Brown, Shaw, Richards. ,IMAGE_pic1\400_499\464.GIF
30,Emblem for STS-29, Discovery, March 1989: Coats, Blaha, Bagian, Springer, Buchli. ,IMAGE_pic1\400_499\465.GIF
30,Emblem for STS-3, Columbia, March 1982: Lousma, Fullerton. ,IMAGE_pic1\400_499\455.GIF
30,Emblem for STS-30, Atlantis, May 1989: Walker, Grabe, Cleave, Lee, Thagard. Launch of Magellan to Venus. ,IMAGE_pic1\400_499\466.GIF
30,Emblem for STS-33, Discovery, November 1989: Gregory, Blaka, Carter, Musgrave, Thornton. ,IMAGE_pic1\400_499\467.GIF
30,Emblem for STS-34, Atlantis, October 1989: Lucid, Williams, McCulley, Baker, Chang-Diaz. Launch of Galileo to Jupiter. ,IMAGE_pic1\400_499\468.GIF
30,Emblem for STS-36, Atlantis, February 1990: Creighton, Casper, Mullane, Hilmers, Thuot. ,IMAGE_pic1\400_499\469.GIF
30,Emblem for STS-4, Columbia, June 1982: Mattingly, Hartsfield. ,IMAGE_pic1\400_499\456.GIF
30,Emblem for STS-41C, Challenger, April 1984: Hart, Van Hoften, Nelson, Crippen, Scobee. Launch of LDEF, repair of Solar Max. ,IMAGE_pic1\400_499\471.GIF
30,Emblem for STS-41D, Discovery, August 1984: Mullane, Hawley, Resnik, Walker, Coats, Hartsfield. Maiden flight of Discovery. ,IMAGE_pic1\400_499\472.GIF
30,Emblem for STS-41G, Challenger, October 1984: Crippen, Sullivan, Leestma, Ride, McBride, Garneau, Sculley-Power. First spacewalk by US female astronaut, Kathryn Sullivan. ,IMAGE_pic1\400_499\473.GIF
30,Emblem for STS-5, Columbia, November 1982: Allen, Brand, Overmyer, Lenoir. First satellite launches from shuttle. ,IMAGE_pic1\400_499\457.GIF
30,Emblem for STS-51A, Discovery, November 1984: Allen, Fisher, Gardner, Hauck, Walker. Recovery of two comsats. ,IMAGE_pic1\400_499\474.GIF
30,Emblem for STS-51B, Challenger, April 1985: Lind, Thagard, Wang, Overmyer, Gregory, Thornton, Van Den Berg. Spacelab 3 mission. ,IMAGE_pic1\400_499\476.GIF
30,Emblem for STS-51C, Discovery, January 1985: Mattingly, Onizuka, Shriver, Payton, Buchli. ,IMAGE_pic1\400_499\475.GIF
30,Emblem for STS-51D, Discovery, April 1985: Bobko, Williams, Seddon, Griggs, Hoffman, Walker, Garn. ,IMAGE_pic1\400_499\477.GIF
30,Emblem for STS-51F, Challenger, July 1985: Fullerton, Bridges, Musgrave, England, Henize, Acton, Bartoe. Spacelab 2 mission. ,IMAGE_pic1\400_499\478.GIF
30,Emblem for STS-51G, Discovery, June 1985: Brandenstein, Creighton, Nagel, Fabian, Lucid, Baudry, Al-Saud. ,IMAGE_pic1\400_499\482.GIF
30,Emblem for STS-51I, Discovery, August 1985: Engle, Covey, Lounge, Fisher, Van Hoften. Repair of Leasat 3. ,IMAGE_pic1\400_499\480.GIF
30,Emblem for STS-51J, Atlantis, October 1985: Bobko, Hilmers, Grabe, Stewart, Pailes. Maiden flight of Atlantis. ,IMAGE_pic1\400_499\481.GIF
30,Emblem for STS-51L, Challenger, January 1986: Scobee, Smith, McNair, Onizuka, Resnik, McAuliffe, Jarvis. Loss of Challenger 73 seconds into flight. ,IMAGE_pic1\400_499\483.GIF
30,Emblem for STS-6, Challenger, April 1983: Peterson, Weitz, Bobko, Musgrave. Maiden flight of Challenger. ,IMAGE_pic1\400_499\458.GIF
30,Emblem for STS-7, Challenger, June 1983: Crippen, Hauck, Ride, Thagard. First US space flight by female astronaut, Sally Ride. ,IMAGE_pic1\400_499\459.GIF
30,Emblem for STS-8, Challenger, August 1983: Gardner, Bluford, Thornton, Truly, Brandenstein. ,IMAGE_pic1\400_499\460.GIF
30,Emblem for STS-9, Columbia, November 1983: Merbold, Parker, Young, Shaw, Garriott, Lichtenberg. First flight of Spacelab, Spacelab 1. Record six-man crew. ,IMAGE_pic1\400_499\461.GIF
30,Emblem for the Apollo 1 mission, which never took place. White, Grissom and Chaffee died in a fire during training, January 1967. ,IMAGE_pic1\400_499\438.GIF
30,Emblem for the Apollo Soyuz Test Project, July 1975, featuring astronauts Stafford, Brand and Slayton; and cosmonauts Leonov and Kubasov. ,IMAGE_pic1\400_499\427.GIF
113,Emblem for the ASTP project, July 1975. ,IMAGE_pic1\400_499\428.GIF
30,Emblem for the manned manoeuvring unit (MMU) programme. ,IMAGE_pic1\400_499\470.GIF
30,Emblem for the shuttle approach and landing tests, 1977: Haise, Fullerton, Engle, Truly. ,IMAGE_pic1\400_499\452.GIF
30,Emblem for the space shuttle transportation system (STS). ,IMAGE_pic1\400_499\451.GIF
73,Emblem for US manned spaceflight Mission Control, Houston, Texas. ,IMAGE_pic1\400_499\453.GIF
30,Emblem of STS-61A, Challenger, October, 1985: Buchli, Hartsfield, Nagel, Bluford, Dunbar, Messerschmid, Ockels, Furrer. Spacelab D1 mission dedicated to West Germany. Largest ever shuttle crew. ,IMAGE_pic1\400_499\484.GIF
30,Emblem of STS-61B, Atlantis, November 1985: Shaw, O'Connor, Cleave, Ross, Spring, Walker, Neri Vela. ,IMAGE_pic1\400_499\485.GIF
30,Emblem of STS-61C, Columbia, January 1986: Gibson, Bolden, George D. Nelson, Hawley, Chang-Diaz, Cenker, C. William Nelson. ,IMAGE_pic1\400_499\486.GIF
164,Endeavour and the STS-49 shuttle stack sit on the mobile launch platform on Pad 39B with just a few hours of the countdown remaining to its first launch attempt. ,IMAGE_pic1\1000_99\14b.GIF
179,Endeavour blasts off launch Pad 39B at 7.40 pm local time on May 7, 1992. Uncertain weather conditions at the Kennedy Space Center put the launch in doubt until the last moment. It is a flawless lift-off. ,IMAGE_pic1\1000_99\18a.GIF
164,Endeavour climbs into the darkening Florida sky on its first journey into space, on May 7, 1992. (STS-49) ,IMAGE_pic1\1200_99\278.GIF
179,Endeavour's main engines ignite for the first time on April 6, 1996, on a static test on Pad 39B. It is a flight readiness firing, performed by all new orbiters prior to launch. ,IMAGE_pic1\1000_99\12.GIF
397,Energia blasts off the Baikonur launch pad on May 15, 1987, on a successful first flight, becoming the most powerful operational launch vehicle in the world. ,IMAGE_pic1\700_799\772.GIF
164,Enjoying the traditional astronauts' breakfast in Kennedy's operations and checkout building on May 7, 1992, are, from the left: Rick Hieb, Bruce Melnick, Kathy Thornton, Dan Brandenstein, Kevin Chilton, Pierre Thuot and Tom Akers. (STS-49) ,IMAGE_pic1\1200_99\273.GIF
180,Enterprise descends steeply towards the Edwards Air Force Base in California during an approach and landing test (ALT) in 1977. ,IMAGE_pic1\1900_99\920.GIF
180,Enterprise puts in a fine aerodynamic performance on its test flights, accompanied here by two chase aircraft, as the operational orbiters will be. ,IMAGE_pic1\1900_99\921.GIF
61,Equipment mounted on the Spacelab pallet, being prepared for the first Spacelab mission, Spacelab 1, on STS-9 in November 1983. ,IMAGE_pic1\1900_99\973.GIF
311,ERS 1 image of the island of Lanzarote, in the Canary Islands off the north-west coast of Africa. ,IMAGE_pic1\1300_99\394a.GIF
311,ERS 1 image showing the Swiss and Italian Alps and at left, the Rhone Valley. ,IMAGE_pic1\1300_99\393.GIF
311,ERS 1, pictured over the Namib Desert in southern Africa. Data it sends back will give a closer insight into how such regions develop. ,IMAGE_pic1\1300_99\387.GIF
166,ESA astronaut Claude Nicollier (left) is Swiss, hence the Swiss flag and the picture of the Swiss Alpine peak, the Matterhorn. He is pictured with mission commander Loren Shriver on Atlantis' aft flight deck. (STS-46) ,IMAGE_pic1\1300_99\316.GIF
163,ESA astronaut Dirk Frimout, from Belgium, working at the data display unit on the aft flight deck of Atlantis. (STS-45) ,IMAGE_pic1\1200_99\260.GIF
68,ESA's ground station at Fucino in Italy, one of the major sites that receive data from Europe's satellites. ,IMAGE_pic1\1400_99\427.GIF
46,Eugene Cernan emerges from Gemini 9 to go spacewalking. Note the umbilical line. ,IMAGE_pic1\1600_99\647.GIF
46,Eugene Cernan photographs Baja California with his EVA camera from outside Gemini 9. ,IMAGE_pic1\1600_99\649.GIF
165,Eugene Trinh monitoring experiments at the drop physics module inside the USML. (STS-50) ,IMAGE_pic1\1300_99\300.GIF
348,Eureca begins free flight as the shuttle passes over the sunlit west Atlantic. Cape Canaveral stands out clearly. ,IMAGE_pic1\1300_99\310c.GIF
274,Europe's astronomy satellite Hipparchos, pictured against circular star trails in the northern heavens. ,IMAGE_pic1\1400_99\403.GIF
68,Europe's Earth resources satellite ERS 1 being tested in the large space simulator at ESTEC. ,IMAGE_pic1\1400_99\424.GIF
17,European Space Agency astronaut Ulf Merbold working at the critical point facility during training for the IML-1 mission. (STS-42) ,IMAGE_pic1\1200_99\224b.GIF
489,False-colour imagery brings out the parallel jet streams in Saturn's atmosphere. The spots are regions of severe turbulence. (Voyager 2) ,IMAGE_pic1\700_799\718.GIF
448,False-colour imagery from Voyager 2 data has brought out detail in Saturn's banded atmosphere. The two moons visible are Dione (top) and Enceladus. ,IMAGE_pic1\200_299\240.GIF
457,False-colour imagery has been used to enhance features in a Magellan radar scan of Venus. At bottom right is an impact crater, and surrounding flows of ejected material. ,IMAGE_pic1\200_299\271.GIF
448,Fault lines and craters cover Saturn's icy moon Enceladus, in this Voyager 2 image. ,IMAGE_pic1\200_299\241.GIF
123,Firing the orbital manoeuvring engines causes the glow aft. In the payload bay are the SPAS-1 satellite and cradles for two comsats. (STS-7) ,IMAGE_pic1\1800_99\805.GIF
72,First and second stages of a Proton rocket in the Proton assembly building at Baikonur. ,IMAGE_pic1\300_399\361.GIF
9,First man in space Yuri Gagarin, pictured in a painting in the Space Museum at Baikonur. ,IMAGE_pic1\300_399\363.GIF
103,First stage separation of the Apollo 11/Saturn V launch vehicle at an altitude of about 60 km. ,IMAGE_pic1\1400_99\497.GIF
167,Fixing the thicker heat-shield tiles to the underside of the orbiter with adhesive. ,IMAGE_pic1\1900_99\914.GIF
167,Fixing tiles to a shuttle orbiter. Each one is individually contoured and has its own computer coding. ,IMAGE_pic1\0_99\81.GIF
130,Flying in the MMU over the Bahamas, Dale Gardner closes in on Westar. (STS-51A) ,IMAGE_pic1\1800_99\841.GIF
47,Following his brief flight, Alan Shepard inspects his Mercury spacecraft on the deck on the Navy carrier 'Champlain'. ,IMAGE_pic1\1600_99\667.GIF
29,Four frames of a cine film shot while Ham was riding in the Mercury capsule in his suborbital flight on January 31, 1961. ,IMAGE_pic1\1600_99\666.GIF
142,Four of Discovery's crew of five pictured inside the crew compartment trainer at the Johnson Space Center during a training session. They are, from the left: Richard Covey, Mike Lounge, David Hilmers and Frederick Hauck. (STS-26) ,IMAGE_pic1\1800_99\899.GIF
166,Franco Malerba, who represents the Italian Space Agency that developed the tethered satellite being tested on this flight. Here he is shooting pictures through one of Atlantis' overhead windows. (STS-46) ,IMAGE_pic1\1300_99\319.GIF
88,Frogman are on hand soon after the Gemini 4 capsule splashes down on June 7, 1965. They have already attached the floating collar. ,IMAGE_pic1\100_199\126.GIF
103,Frogmen about to open the Apollo 11 command module following the successful splashdown on July 24, 1969. ,IMAGE_pic1\0_99\79.GIF
51,Frogmen attach a flotation collar to the Skylab 3 command module after splashdown. ,IMAGE_pic1\1700_99\705.GIF
494,From Earth in 1986, Halley's comet proved a disappointing spectacle. Here it is seen moving across a starry background. ,IMAGE_pic1\200_299\282.GIF
72,Front end of one of Energia's liquid-fuelled boosters. ,IMAGE_pic1\300_399\388.GIF
41,Full-scale mock-up of a Soyuz spacecraft, whose design has remained largely unchanged since its debut in 1967. ,IMAGE_pic1\0_99\90.GIF
58,Full-scale mock-up of the Mir space station at the Gagarin cosmonaut training centre in Star City, in which cosmonauts practise for space flight. ,IMAGE_pic1\300_399\396.GIF
458,Galileo produced this image of the Simpson Desert in Australia as it swung past the Earth in December 1990, gaining speed by the so-called gravity-assist technique. ,IMAGE_pic1\1000_99\67.GIF
279,Gamma-ray sources in the Gemini/Taurus region of the heavens, spied by the GRO. The source at lower right is the powerful pulsar in the Crab nebula. The other is a mysterious source called Geminga. ,IMAGE_pic1\1100_99\131.GIF
157,Gas is released into space from a compressed gas canister in Discovery's payload bay. (STS-39) ,IMAGE_pic1\1100_99\137.GIF
94,Gemini 10 docks with the Agena target vehicle on July 18, 1966. ,IMAGE_pic1\500_599\567.GIF
46,Gemini 10 moves in to rendezvous with an Agena target vehicle during a three-day mission, July 18-21, 1966. ,IMAGE_pic1\1600_99\652.GIF
46,Gemini 11 Earth photography showing India and Sri Lanka. ,IMAGE_pic1\1600_99\657.GIF
6,Gemini 12 astronaut Edwin Aldrin undergoing zero-g training in the water tank at the Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville. ,IMAGE_pic1\700_799\763.GIF
46,Gemini 12 astronaut John Young trains for his forthcoming spacewalk in a water tank. ,IMAGE_pic1\1600_99\657a.GIF
6,Gemini 12 pilot Edwin Aldrin took this picture during a stand-up EVA while the spacecraft was docked with the Agena target vehicle. ,IMAGE_pic1\1600_99\658.GIF
11,Gemini 3 lifts off the launch pad atop a Gemini-Titan rocket on March 23, 1965. Aboard are Virgil Grissom and John Young. ,IMAGE_pic1\0_99\20.GIF
90,Gemini 6 and Gemini 7 inch closer and closer during the first space rendezvous on December 15, 1965. ,IMAGE_pic1\500_599\568.GIF
46,Gemini 6 lifts off the launch pad on December 15, 1965, heading for a rendezvous with Gemini 7. ,IMAGE_pic1\1600_99\642.GIF
90,Gemini 7 closing in to Gemini 6 as they conduct the first space rendezvous. ,IMAGE_pic1\800_899\863.GIF
90,Gemini 7 snapped by the Gemini 6 astronauts during the first space rendezvous on December 15, 1965. ,IMAGE_pic1\500_599\569.GIF
499,General view of the complex of telescopes at the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory on La Palma, in the Canary Islands. ,IMAGE_pic1\900_999\925.GIF
22,Geologist Harrison Schmitt gets down to some lunar "gardening" on the Apollo 17 mission. ,IMAGE_pic1\300_399\328.GIF
142,George Nelson at work on a mid-deck experiment. (STS-26) ,IMAGE_pic1\1900_99\907.GIF
142,George Nelson in the new partially pressurized flight suit flown by the STS-26 astronauts for the first time during lift-off and landing. ,IMAGE_pic1\500_599\533.GIF
127,George Nelson pictured in Challenger's payload bay after checking out the captured Solar Max satellite. (STS-41C) ,IMAGE_pic1\1800_99\822.GIF
17,German astronaut Ulf Merbold looks at the patterns inside an umbrella-shaped dome during an experiment into space sickness. David Hilmers assists. ,IMAGE_pic1\1200_99\236.GIF
138,German payload specialist Ernst Messerschmid working at the materials science rack. (STS-61A) ,IMAGE_pic1\1800_99\890.GIF
108,Gnomon among the rocks on the second EVA. Charles Duke stands beside the lunar rover. (Apollo 16) ,IMAGE_pic1\1600_99\612.GIF
47,Gordon Cooper in the Faith 7 Mercury capsule starts his flight into space, where he will remain for a record-breaking (for the USA) 34 hours. ,IMAGE_pic1\1600_99\672.GIF
33,Gordon Cooper, suited up for space, checks the fit of the couch that will be installed in his Mercury capsule. ,IMAGE_pic1\800_899\806.GIF
70,Ground tests taking place on a propfan, an advanced propeller design for high-speed flight; a project managed by the Lewis Research Center. ,IMAGE_pic1\400_499\493.GIF
124,Guion Bluford gets in some jogging on Challenger's treadmill during the STS-8 mission. ,IMAGE_pic1\500_599\547.GIF
18,Hair floating free, Judy Resnik sends a message home during her first flight into orbit in August 1984 (STS-41D). ,IMAGE_pic1\0_99\39.GIF
494,Halley's comet pictured from Chile on April 15, 1986. In the bottom left is the peculiar galaxy Centaurus A. ,IMAGE_pic1\100_199\149.GIF
494,Halley's comet, as seen from Earth in March 1986 on its latest return to our skies. ,IMAGE_pic1\100_199\111.GIF
494,Halley's comet, in false colour, when it appeared in Earth skies in 1910. ,IMAGE_pic1\200_299\278.GIF
269,Halley's Comet, spotted by the international ultraviolet explorer (IUE) in January 1986. ,IMAGE_pic1\1700_99\717a.GIF
29,Ham, wearing a NASA hard hat, tries for size the couch in which he will journey briefly into space. ,IMAGE_pic1\1600_99\664.GIF
18,Henry Hartsfield (right) explaining the working of the IMAX camera to Judy Resnik (left) in the one-g shuttle trainer at the Johnson Space Center. Mike Mullane and Steven Hawley look on. ,IMAGE_pic1\700_799\798.GIF
103,Here Edwin Aldrin is driving a tube into the lunar soil to extract a core sample. (Apollo 11) ,IMAGE_pic1\1500_99\510.GIF
164,Here Kathy Thornton (left) and Tom Akers are working at the multipurpose support structure, which is being held aloft by Endeavour's robot arm. (STS-49) ,IMAGE_pic1\1200_99\294.GIF
431,Hermes glides in to land on the runway. The two prime landing sites will be at the Kourou launch site and in southern Spain, with emergency sites elsewhere. ,IMAGE_pic1\1300_99\376.GIF
431,Hermes in orbit 300 km above the Earth. ,IMAGE_pic1\1300_99\371.GIF
55,Hermes is shown here docked with the international Freedom space station. ,IMAGE_pic1\1300_99\373.GIF
448,High-altitude cirrus clouds in Neptune's atmosphere. (Voyager 2) ,IMAGE_pic1\600_699\610.GIF
503,Historically one of the most important telescopes ever built, the 100-inch (254-cm) Hooker telescope at Mount Wilson Observatory, California. ,IMAGE_pic1\900_999\927.GIF
118,History is made in November 1981, when Columbia heads for space for the second time (STS-2). No spacecraft has returned to space before. ,IMAGE_pic1\600_699\670.GIF
277,Hubble space telescope picture of a mysterious elliptical disc of matter around the remnants of the famous 1987A supernova. ,IMAGE_pic1\1000_99\61.GIF
277,Hubble space telescope picture of the central region of the active galaxy M87 and its jet of plasma, thought to be emitted by a super hot disc around a black hole. ,IMAGE_pic1\1000_99\60.GIF
277,Hubble space telescope picture of the centre of the giant elliptical galaxy NGC 1275, reveals up to 50 massive and compact globular clusters (blue dots). ,IMAGE_pic1\1000_99\63.GIF
141,Ice festoons the launch pad gantry on the morning of January 28, 1986, hours before Challenger is due to lift off on the fateful STS-51L mission. ,IMAGE_pic1\200_299\295.GIF
447,In 1976 a Viking orbiter spots a swirling dust storm (arrowed) travelling across the surface of Mars. ,IMAGE_pic1\100_199\138.GIF
139,In Atlantis' payload bay on STS-61B Jerry Ross and Sherwood Spring assemble EASE components, practising techniques that will be used in the construction of space station Freedom. ,IMAGE_pic1\500_599\595.GIF
136,In August 1985 on the STS-51I mission, James van Hoften moves in to capture the dead Leasat 3, inactive since its launch on STS- 51D. ,IMAGE_pic1\0_99\84.GIF
129,In Challenger's payload bay during the STS-41G mission, the RMS arm grips the ERBS satellite prior to placing it in orbit. ,IMAGE_pic1\800_899\814.GIF
144,In December 1988 Atlantis heads for space on the STS-27 mission dedicated to the Department of Defence. ,IMAGE_pic1\600_699\648.GIF
142,In Discovery the cheery crew of STS-26 (September 1988) celebrate a textbook mission looking as though are on vacation! They are (from the left): Mike Lounge, David Hilmers, Frederick Hauck, George Nelson and Richard Covey. ,IMAGE_pic1\500_599\577.GIF
106,In Houston's lunar receiving laboratory, scientists examine rocks brought back by the Apollo 14 astronauts. ,IMAGE_pic1\1500_99\567.GIF
448,In June 1979 Voyager 2 spied the ring around Jupiter discovered by its sister craft Voyager 1. ,IMAGE_pic1\100_199\113.GIF
109,In March 1972 Ronald Evans has a final fitting for his spacesuit ready for December's Apollo 17 mission, the project's last. Before the shuttle era, every astronaut had an individually tailored spacesuit. ,IMAGE_pic1\500_599\591.GIF
146,In May 1989 the crew of STS-30 snapped this view of Cape Canaveral and the Kennedy Space Center. The launch pads flanking the Cape can be clearly seen, as can farther north the shuttle runway and launch pads. ,IMAGE_pic1\600_699\676.GIF
74,In the early days of the shuttle era, fears that the acid fumes from SRBs during lift-off would damage paint work prompted some workers at the Kennedy Space Center to cocoon their cars in plastic. ,IMAGE_pic1\600_699\669.GIF
106,In the Lunar Receiving Laboratory at Houston, test director Daniel Anderson examines a basketball-sized chunk of Apollo 14 rock through a petrological microscope. ,IMAGE_pic1\1900_99\962.GIF
179,In the Orbiter Processing Facility at the Kennedy Space Center, Endeavour's third main engine is about to be installed, on November 19, 1991. ,IMAGE_pic1\1000_99\9.GIF
14,In the topsy-turvy weightless world in space, astronaut Donald Slayton gets together with cosmonaut Alexei Leonov. ,IMAGE_pic1\100_199\158.GIF
164,In the VAB on March 7, 1992, Endeavour is lowered into position on the external tank for the STS-49 mission. ,IMAGE_pic1\1000_99\10.GIF
146,In the Vertical Processing Facility at the Kennedy Space Center the Magellan Venus probe is mated with the inertial upper stage (IUS), ready for installing in orbiter Atlantis for STS-30. ,IMAGE_pic1\300_399\340.GIF
41,In this Soviet artist's impression, a Soyuz ferry craft edges in to dock with the first space station, Salyut 1. ,IMAGE_pic1\100_199\178.GIF
446,In this Viking orbiter picture of Mars, mist hangs in the canyons of the region known as the Labyrinth of the Night. ,IMAGE_pic1\700_799\725.GIF
58,Inside the mission control room at Kaliningrad during a routine link-up with the Mir space station, March 1991. ,IMAGE_pic1\300_399\394.GIF
162,Inside the Spacelab module outfitted for microgravity experiments, Ronald Grabe tests a computer work station specially modified for use in space. (STS-42) ,IMAGE_pic1\1200_99\226.GIF
113,Inside the VAB the Apollo spacecraft is prepared early in 1975 for its July flight on the ASTP mission. ,IMAGE_pic1\400_499\414.GIF
272,IRAS also spotted heavenly bodies closer to home, including this comet, called IRAS-Araki-Alcock. ,IMAGE_pic1\200_299\224.GIF
272,IRAS being tested before launch in the space simulator at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California. ,IMAGE_pic1\200_299\268.GIF
272,IRAS spent months mapping the heavens in the infrared and was able to see through the dust clouds that normally mask the heart of our Milky Way galaxy. ,IMAGE_pic1\200_299\239.GIF
272,IRAS view of our neighbouring galaxy in Andromeda, M31, at infrared wavelengths. ,IMAGE_pic1\900_999\965.GIF
46,It is December 16, 1965, and the Gemini 6 astronauts have just splashed down in the Atlantic after a successful 26-hour flight. ,IMAGE_pic1\1600_99\643.GIF
117,It is November 1980, and Columbia is in place on the shuttle stack, mated with SRBs and external tank, and ready for roll-out from the VAB. ,IMAGE_pic1\800_899\839.GIF
130,It's Dale Gardner's turn for capturing a satellite, Westar VI. He is flying towards it with the 'stinger'. (STS-51A) ,IMAGE_pic1\1800_99\840.GIF
269,IUE image of the supernova of the century, 1987A, which was visible to the naked eye. ,IMAGE_pic1\1400_99\402.GIF
51,Jack Lousma spacewalking, photographed from Skylab. (Skylab 3) ,IMAGE_pic1\1600_99\698.GIF
35,Jack Lousma tests the new shuttle spacesuit in a KC-135 zero-g training aircraft in July 1981. ,IMAGE_pic1\0_99\51.GIF
158,James Bagian takes part in a vestibular, or body balance experiment on Columbia's mid-deck. He sits in a rotating chair, and is fitted with instruments to record acceleration and eye movements. Millie Hughes-Fulford assists. (STS-40) ,IMAGE_pic1\1100_99\156.GIF
138,James Buchli talks to Spacelab controllers on Challenger's aft flight deck. (STS-61A) ,IMAGE_pic1\1800_99\889.GIF
107,James Irwin hangs onto the lunar rover, which is starting to slide down the slope. In the foreground is David Scott's tongs for gathering samples. (Apollo 15) ,IMAGE_pic1\1500_99\583.GIF
107,James Irwin loads up the lunar rover during the first EVA. (Apollo 15) ,IMAGE_pic1\1500_99\580.GIF
107,James Irwin works near the lunar rover, with Mt Hadley in the background. (Apollo 15) ,IMAGE_pic1\1500_99\582.GIF
136,James van Hoften pretends to be Atlas holding up the world. Very convincing! (STS-51I) ,IMAGE_pic1\1800_99\885.GIF
179,Jan Davis (left) and pilot Curtis Brown examine the cell-building activities of some of the 180 female Oriental hornets carried aboard Endeavour. (STS-47) ,IMAGE_pic1\1300_99\338.GIF
65,Japan's communications satellite Sakura 2b (CS-2b), placed in geostationary orbit in August 1983. ,IMAGE_pic1\600_699\628.GIF
65,Japan's direct broadcasting satellite Yuri 2a, launched into geostationary orbit in 1984. (NASDA) ,IMAGE_pic1\600_699\630.GIF
65,Japan's engineering test satellite or Kiku 5 (ETS-5), placed in geostationary orbit in 1987. (NASDA) ,IMAGE_pic1\600_699\626.GIF
65,Japan's geostationary meteorological satellite Himawari 3 (GMS-3), placed in geostationary orbit in 1984. ,IMAGE_pic1\600_699\627.GIF
179,Japanese payload specialist Dr Mamoru Mohri take photomicrographs of mammalian cell tissues during a Spacelab experiment. (STS-47) ,IMAGE_pic1\1300_99\334.GIF
132,Jeffrey Hoffman (left) and David Griggs trying to fix the 'flyswatter' onto the end of the robot arm. (STS-51D) ,IMAGE_pic1\1800_99\858.GIF
156,Jerome Apt is pictured on Atlantis' port side during a contingency EVA in which he and Jerry Ross managed to extend the GRO's high-gain antenna, which refused to deploy automatically. (STS-37) ,IMAGE_pic1\1100_99\121.GIF
156,Jerry Ross attached a safety tether to a guide wire on Atlantis' port side during the second EVA on STS-37. ,IMAGE_pic1\1100_99\124.GIF
31,Jerry Ross catches a ride on the 'cherry picker' during a spectacular EVA session on STS-61A. ,IMAGE_pic1\800_899\843.GIF
175,Jerry Ross in Atlantis' payload bay during his spacewalk with Jerome Apt to extend the high-gain antenna on the GRO, which had become jammed. ,IMAGE_pic1\1100_99\128.GIF
449,Jet Propulsion Laboratory's Linda Morabito, who was first to spot the volcanoes erupting on Jupiter's moon Io in Voyager 1 images. ,IMAGE_pic1\100_199\195.GIF
34,Joe Engle practises donning the new shuttle spacesuit in the simulated weightlessness of the KC-135 'zero-gravity' aircraft prior to the STS-2 mission. ,IMAGE_pic1\900_999\987.GIF
151,John Creighton dons improvised ski gear and pronounces himself the world's fastest skier (travelling at orbital velocity, 28,000 km/h). (STS-36) ,IMAGE_pic1\1000_99\38.GIF
10,John Glenn eases himself into the cramped cockpit of the Mercury capsule Friendship 7 on February 20, 1962, prior to his successful attempt to become the first American in orbit. ,IMAGE_pic1\500_599\548.GIF
10,John Glenn, pictured in 1964. He made the first US flight into orbit in Friendship 7 on February 20, 1962. His lapel badge signifies he is one of the "Original Seven" Mercury astronauts. ,IMAGE_pic1\0_99\46.GIF
108,John Young collecting rock and soil samples at the edge of a crater, using a 'rake' and a set of tongs. (Apollo 16) ,IMAGE_pic1\1600_99\605.GIF
28,John Young pictured inside the cockpit of Columbia on April 12, 1981, during the first highly successful shuttle flight (STS-1). ,IMAGE_pic1\0_99\30.GIF
102,John Young shaving inside the command module during the Apollo 10 lunar orbital mission. ,IMAGE_pic1\1400_99\486.GIF
177,John Young, commander of STS-1, enters Columbia as it nears completion. Most of the heat-shield tiles are now in place. ,IMAGE_pic1\700_799\782.GIF
130,Joseph Allen rides Discovery's robot arm while it positions Palapa above the payload bay. Dale Gardner is underneath. (STS- 51A) ,IMAGE_pic1\1800_99\837.GIF
448,Jupiter's gaudy coloured moon Io has active volcanoes spewing out sulphur, which accounts for its vivid colour. (Voyager 2) ,IMAGE_pic1\500_599\585.GIF
448,Jupiter's moon Europa (Voyager 2 photo) shows strange markings on its icy surface. ,IMAGE_pic1\200_299\245.GIF
449,Jupiter's moon Io was nicknamed the "pizza moon" because of its vivid colour and markings (Voyager 1 photo), which are probably due to flows of molten sulphur. ,IMAGE_pic1\200_299\247.GIF
448,Jupiter's stormy and vividly coloured atmosphere, pictured by Voyager 2. The Great Red Spot and other oval features are storm centres. ,IMAGE_pic1\200_299\242.GIF
135,Karl Henize photographing out of the windows on the aft flight deck of Challenger. (STS-51F) ,IMAGE_pic1\1800_99\875.GIF
19,Kathryn Sullivan (left) and Sally Ride synchronize watches before entering Challenger to begin Kathy's first and Sally's second mission (STS-41G) on October 5, 1984. ,IMAGE_pic1\0_99\57.GIF
129,Kathryn Sullivan checking the shuttle imaging radar antenna during her EVA on October 11, 1984. (STS-41G) ,IMAGE_pic1\1800_99\830.GIF
152,Kathryn Sullivan gets kitted up in a spacesuit just in case problems arise during HST deployment. (STS-31) ,IMAGE_pic1\1000_99\53.GIF
129,Kathryn Sullivan peers through the windows of Challenger on the STS-41G mission, on which she became the first US female astronaut to make a spacewalk. ,IMAGE_pic1\800_899\858.GIF
163,Kathryn Sullivan pictured in her flight suit in the white room minutes before she climbs in to Atlantis. Behind is Brian Duffy. ,IMAGE_pic1\1200_99\250.GIF
129,Kathryn Sullivan practises for her scheduled EVA on STS-41G in the water tank at the Johnson Space Center. ,IMAGE_pic1\900_999\986.GIF
152,Kathryn Sullivan snapped this dramatic view of the 39B (foreground) and 39A launch pads at the Kennedy Space Center while on a training flight for the STS-31 mission. It is two days before the scheduled lift-off in Discovery, seen in position on pad 39B. ,IMAGE_pic1\1000_99\48.GIF
164,Kathy Thornton fixing struts with purpose-built nodes as the beam structure grows. (STS-49) ,IMAGE_pic1\1200_99\291.GIF
164,Kathy Thornton relaxes for a few moments following suiting up ready for launch. (STS-49) ,IMAGE_pic1\1200_99\274.GIF
156,Kennedy Space Center technicians remove the GRO from its container early in February 1990. Weighing in at some 15 tonnes, it will be the heaviest satellite carried aboard the shuttle. (STS-37) ,IMAGE_pic1\1100_99\116.GIF
108,Kicking up dust, John Young puts the lunar rover through its paces. (Apollo 16) ,IMAGE_pic1\1600_99\608.GIF
487,Kicking up the Martian dust, an automatic Mars explorer descends to the surface. Later it will deploy a rover to collect samples from various sites, which it will then return to Earth. ,IMAGE_pic1\500_599\504.GIF
499,Kitt Peak Observatory in Arizona is located above the clouds in a dry climate where skies are clear on all but a few days a year. ,IMAGE_pic1\900_999\923.GIF
106,Kitted in his EMU (extravehicular mobility unit), Alan Shepard trains for the Apollo 14 EVAs. ,IMAGE_pic1\1500_99\545.GIF
159,Lake Nasser, the Aswan Dam and the River Nile show up clearly in this STS-43 photograph. ,IMAGE_pic1\1100_99\183.GIF
304,Landsat 1 imagery: New England in the USA; Boston is the blue- white region at top. ,IMAGE_pic1\300_399\352.GIF
304,Landsat 1 imagery: the meandering Mississippi River and tributaries in the states of Arkansas and Mississippi. ,IMAGE_pic1\300_399\351.GIF
330,Last-minute preparations being made on the pad at Cape Canaveral on January 31, 1958, for the launch on a Jupiter C rocket of the first US satellite, Explorer 1. ,IMAGE_pic1\0_99\11.GIF
75,Launch control centre at the Kourou Space Centre. ,IMAGE_pic1\1400_99\435.GIF
127,LDEF, the long duration exposure facility, is deployed by RMS arm from Challenger during the STS-41C mission in 1984. ,IMAGE_pic1\500_599\526.GIF
132,Leasat 3 spins frisbee fashion out of Discovery's payload bay. (STS-51D) ,IMAGE_pic1\1800_99\855.GIF
132,Leasat 3, just launched from Discovery on STS-51D. But it refuses to work, despite ingenious efforts by the crew. A spectacular recovery and repair mission (STS-51I) took place later in the year. ,IMAGE_pic1\800_899\851.GIF
129,Led by Kathryn Sullivan, the STS-41G crew head for the launch pad early on the morning of October 5, 1984. ,IMAGE_pic1\700_799\785.GIF
88,Lift-off of Gemini 4 in June 1965 on a Titan launch vehicle. ,IMAGE_pic1\700_799\721.GIF
10,Lift-off of the Mercury-Atlas launch vehicle that will carry John Glenn in Friendship 7 into orbit on February 20, 1962. ,IMAGE_pic1\0_99\60.GIF
103,Lift-off on the journey of a lifetime. Apollo 11 sets out on July 16, 1969, to attempt the impossible - a manned landing on the Moon. ,IMAGE_pic1\200_299\221.GIF
494,Like all relatively short-period comets, Halley's comet traces an elliptical path through the Solar System, appearing in Earth skies every 75/76 years. ,IMAGE_pic1\200_299\280.GIF
448,Like Jupiter's Great Red Spot, Neptune's cloud-flecked Great Dark Spot is probably a huge storm centre (Voyager 2 photo). ,IMAGE_pic1\200_299\252.GIF
156,Linda Godwin demonstrates how easy it is to balance fellow astronaut Jerry Ross in the peculiar state of weightlessness. (STS-37) ,IMAGE_pic1\1100_99\125.GIF
401,Little Joe takes off, lifting a dummy Mercury capsule to high altitude. ,IMAGE_pic1\1900_99\971.GIF
162,Logo for Biorack, the life-science investigation equipment on IML-1. (STS-42) ,IMAGE_pic1\1200_99\223c.GIF
162,Logo for the IML-1 mission. (STS-42) ,IMAGE_pic1\1200_99\223b.GIF
449,Looking back on the Solar System in June 1990 from over 6,000 million km away, Voyager 1 pictured six of the nine planets. ,IMAGE_pic1\200_299\258.GIF
109,Looking back to Earth, the Apollo 17 astronauts take this splendid photograph of part of Africa and the Middle East. ,IMAGE_pic1\1600_99\623.GIF
503,Looking skywards from beneath the dish of the Arecibo radio telescope. The dish is made up of 38,778 perforated aluminium panels. ,IMAGE_pic1\900_999\946.GIF
135,Loren Acton photographing the starry heavens through the aft flight deck overhead windows. (STS-51F) ,IMAGE_pic1\1800_99\878.GIF
468,Lunar Orbiter 4 images are combined in this picture, which shows the spectacular Orientale Basin, only a little of which is normally visible on the western limb in photographs from Earth. ,IMAGE_pic1\900_999\962.GIF
501,M92, a bright globular star cluster in the constellation Hercules. ,IMAGE_pic1\900_999\992.GIF
61,Mae Jemison, making her first space flight, enjoying the sensation of weightlessness inside Spacelab. (STS-47) ,IMAGE_pic1\1300_99\336.GIF
179,Mamoru Mohri talks to students on Earth on the shuttle amateur radio link, SAREX. (STS-47) ,IMAGE_pic1\1300_99\335.GIF
444,Mariner 10 at Mercury, March 29, 1974: a relatively smooth area of the surface; note the centre crater and its rays. ,IMAGE_pic1\1700_99\765.GIF
444,Mariner 10 at Mercury, March 29, 1974: the large flat-floored crater is about 80 km across; the nearby valley some 6 km wide. ,IMAGE_pic1\1700_99\767.GIF
444,Mariner 10 at Mercury, March 29, 1974: the northern limb, showing on the horizon a prominent scarp (cliff). ,IMAGE_pic1\1700_99\766.GIF
444,Mariner 10 at Mercury, March 29, 1974: the sharp edges of the small, 12-km across, crater near the centre shows that it is young. ,IMAGE_pic1\1700_99\768.GIF
444,Mariner 10 at Mercury, September 21, 1974: on its second encounter of Mercury, Mariner spies scarps more than 300 km long. ,IMAGE_pic1\1700_99\769.GIF
444,Mariner 10 at Mercury: A mosaic of images making up a crescent Mercury. The inset shows a bright new crater, named Kuiper after the noted US astronomer Gerard Kuiper. ,IMAGE_pic1\1700_99\770.GIF
444,Mariner 10 snaps this picture of Mercury on September 21, 1974, showing the rugged lunar-like landscape. ,IMAGE_pic1\100_199\139.GIF
444,Mariner 10's cameras took this picture of clouds in Venus' atmosphere in ultraviolet light in February 1974. ,IMAGE_pic1\100_199\180.GIF
439,Mariner 6 at Mars: the coverage is about 80 km across; the large crater is about 25 km across. ,IMAGE_pic1\1700_99\750.GIF
439,Mariner 6 at Mars: The main crater is about 40 km across. ,IMAGE_pic1\1700_99\751.GIF
441,Mariner 9 at Mars: a global mosaic of Mars based on some 1,500 Mariner pictures, showing at centre the north polar ice cap. ,IMAGE_pic1\1700_99\762.GIF
441,Mariner 9 at Mars: a Martian 'Alpine Valley', similar to that on the Moon. ,IMAGE_pic1\1700_99\761.GIF
441,Mariner 9 at Mars: a region where the surface has fractured, leaving a web of canyons. ,IMAGE_pic1\1700_99\759.GIF
441,Mariner 9 at Mars: Olympus Mons is surrounded by lava flows from ancient eruptions. ,IMAGE_pic1\1700_99\756.GIF
441,Mariner 9 at Mars: Olympus Mons, 550 km across at the base, rises dramatically from the surrounding plain. ,IMAGE_pic1\1700_99\757.GIF
441,Mariner 9 at Mars: the northern hemisphere of Mars, showing the ice cap shrinking in the northern spring. At upper left is Mars' huge volcano, Olympus Mons. ,IMAGE_pic1\1700_99\755.GIF
441,Mariner 9 at Mars: the summit caldera (crater) of Olympus Mons, which measures some 60 km across. ,IMAGE_pic1\1700_99\758.GIF
441,Mariner 9 at Mars: this mosaic, covering a distance of 120 km, shows a channel that looks as if it was made by flowing water. ,IMAGE_pic1\1700_99\760.GIF
441,Mariner 9 spied this crater complex projecting through the clouds of dust that covered Mars in December 1981. It is the summit of one of the three high volcanoes on the Tharsis Ridge. ,IMAGE_pic1\800_899\809.GIF
160,Mark Brown (left) and James Buchli work with the structural test article, a model of the Freedom space station truss. (STS-48) ,IMAGE_pic1\1100_99\195.GIF
150,Marsha Ivins seems bewildered by the weightless cameras around her. She is using the equipment to evaluate different films. (STS-32) ,IMAGE_pic1\1000_99\28.GIF
166,Marsha Ivins's weightless locks dominate this on-board portrait of the STS-46 crew. Going clockwise from Marsha, the other crew members are: Jeffrey Hoffman, Claude Nicollier, Loren Shriver, Andrew Allen, Franklin Chang-Diaz and Franco Malerba. ,IMAGE_pic1\1300_99\323.GIF
154,Mealtime aboard Atlantis on STS-38 finds Charles Gemar (bottom) and Frank Culbertson delving into food pouches. ,IMAGE_pic1\1000_99\97.GIF
10,Mercury astronaut John Glenn eases into the cramped capsule during training for the first US orbital flight in February 1962. ,IMAGE_pic1\200_299\208.GIF
357,Meteosat image showing most of Europe free of cloud. ,IMAGE_pic1\1300_99\399.GIF
157,Mexico's most active volcano, spied by the STS-39 crew. The volcano had been erupting for nearly two months when the picture was taken. ,IMAGE_pic1\1100_99\143.GIF
480,Midsummer scene at Mars' north pole, pictured by a Viking orbiter. Much of the polar ice cap has melted. ,IMAGE_pic1\1700_99\743.GIF
158,Millie Hughes-Fulford checks the research animal holding facility, an enclosure holding rats and mice, during the STS-40 mission. ,IMAGE_pic1\1100_99\155.GIF
58,Mir in orbit in 1987. The base unit has been expanded by the addition of the Kvant 1 module, to which another Soyuz ferry is presently attached. ,IMAGE_pic1\400_499\405.GIF
58,Mir in orbit in 1989, with Kvant 1 and a Soyuz spacecraft docked at one end, and Kvant 2 docked at the other. ,IMAGE_pic1\400_499\406.GIF
165,Mission commander Richard Richards and Ellen Baker display their respective amateur radio callsigns on Columbia's flight deck. They take part in the ongoing shuttle amateur radio experiment (SAREX). (STS-50) ,IMAGE_pic1\1300_99\306.GIF
162,Mission commander Ronald Grabe (left) and pilot Stephen Oswald are at the controls as Discovery re-enters the atmosphere after its near-7 day IML-1 mission. Note the pink re-entry glow. (STS-42) ,IMAGE_pic1\1200_99\241.GIF
102,Mission Control at Houston on May 19, 1969, during one of the live telecasts made by the Apollo 10 crew en route to the Moon. ,IMAGE_pic1\1400_99\484.GIF
165,Mission specialist Ellen Baker works out on the bicycle ergonometer on Columbia's mid-deck. (STS-50) ,IMAGE_pic1\1300_99\308.GIF
124,Mission specialist Guion Bluford checks the controls of the continuous flow electrophoresis experiment on the mid-deck. (STS- 8) ,IMAGE_pic1\1800_99\812.GIF
163,Mission specialist Michael Foale pictured on Atlantis' aft flight deck during a daylight pass over the Earth. (STS-45) ,IMAGE_pic1\1200_99\257.GIF
480,Model of the chaotic canyon lands on Mars, based on Viking pictures. ,IMAGE_pic1\1700_99\742.GIF
6,Moonwalker Edwin Aldrin works near the Apollo 11 lunar module on July 20, 1969. The Sea of Tranquillity is flat and desolate. ,IMAGE_pic1\100_199\161.GIF
457,Mosaic image of Venus produced from scans by Magellan's radar in 1991. The view is centred at 0 degrees east longitude. ,IMAGE_pic1\1000_99\65.GIF
163,Most of the STS-45 crew experiencing brief moments of weightlessness in the KC-135 zero-g aircraft. Clockwise from the top, they are Michael Foale, Dirk Frimout, Brian Duffy, Charles Chappell (back-up crew), Charles Bolden, Byron Lichtenberg and Kathryn Sullivan. ,IMAGE_pic1\1200_99\247.GIF
72,Mounted on the Energia launcher, Buran makes its way to the launch pad at Baikonur in 1988. ,IMAGE_pic1\300_399\378.GIF
73,Multiexposure photograph showing operations in the docking simulator at the Johnson Space Center during training for the Apollo missions. ,IMAGE_pic1\700_799\754.GIF
448,Mysterious dark patches Voyager 2 spied on Triton. ,IMAGE_pic1\600_699\619.GIF
158,Napping between experiments, Rhea Seddon sleeps on a bunk rigged up in the Spacelab module. (STS-40) ,IMAGE_pic1\1100_99\163.GIF
487,NASA is considering the possibility of exploring Mars by remote- controlled aircraft, flying in the thin Martian atmosphere. ,IMAGE_pic1\500_599\506.GIF
70,NASA's forward-swept wing aircraft, the X-29, in formation with a USAF KC-135 on the occasion of its 200th flight in 1989 from Ames-Dryden. ,IMAGE_pic1\400_499\495.GIF
503,NASA's infrared telescope on Mauna Kea, the massive volcanic peak in Hawaii. ,IMAGE_pic1\900_999\918.GIF
70,NASA's Lewis Research Center is involved in the development of alternative energy projects, such as wind turbines. This installation is at Medicine Bow, Montana. ,IMAGE_pic1\800_899\818.GIF
70,NASA's scissor-wing research craft, the AD-1, developed at Ames- Dryden for investigation of oblique-wing flight. ,IMAGE_pic1\400_499\492.GIF
70,NASA's X-wing rotor research aircraft, which is designed to use the rotor in rotation or stationary as a fixed wing. The project began test flights at Ames-Dryden in 1986. ,IMAGE_pic1\400_499\488.GIF
70,NASA's XV-15 tilt-rotor research aircraft in flight; a project managed by Ames Research Center. ,IMAGE_pic1\400_499\487.GIF
177,Nearly completed, Columbia makes its way from the Rockwell assembly plant at Palmdale to the Edwards Air Force Base, from where it will be flown to the Kennedy Space Center. ,IMAGE_pic1\800_899\879.GIF
103,Neil Armstrong trains inside the Apollo lunar module simulator at the Kennedy Space Center on June 19, 1969, exactly one month before he will land on the Moon. ,IMAGE_pic1\1400_99\496.GIF
448,Neptune's largest moon Triton, which measures some 2,720 km in diameter. (Voyager 2) ,IMAGE_pic1\600_699\614.GIF
448,Neptune's moon 1989 N1, the first of the new moons discovered by Voyager 2. It is a dark body some 200 km across. ,IMAGE_pic1\600_699\623.GIF
448,Neptune's moon Triton proves to have a pinkish colour, and is probably covered with frozen methane and nitrogen snow (Voyager 2 photo). ,IMAGE_pic1\200_299\255.GIF
448,Neptune's two bright rings stand out against a starry background. (Voyager 2) ,IMAGE_pic1\600_699\612.GIF
491,Neptune, its moons and its rings, pictured in relief by computer-processing a telescope image recorded electronically by a CCD (charge-coupled device). ,IMAGE_pic1\900_999\928.GIF
178,Newly completed, a pristine Discovery flies in to the Kennedy Space Center in November 1988 atop the shuttle carrier aircraft. ,IMAGE_pic1\600_699\666.GIF
136,Newly repaired by the STS-51I astronauts, Leasat 3 is pictured against a cloudy backcloth. ,IMAGE_pic1\800_899\880.GIF
55,Next century Freedom or its successor will act as a spaceport for lunar ferries carrying supplies to a Moon base. ,IMAGE_pic1\1700_99\724.GIF
275,Night launch of the COBE (cosmic background explorer) satellite by Delta launch vehicle from the Vandenberg Air Force Base in California on November 30, 1989. ,IMAGE_pic1\1000_99\68.GIF
74,Night view of one of the antennas on board the tracking ship USS Vandenberg at Port Canaveral. ,IMAGE_pic1\600_699\672.GIF
359,Nimbus 7 data was used to produce these pictures of ozone concentrations above the Antarctic over five years. The pink areas in 1985 and 1987 show the worst ozone "holes". ,IMAGE_pic1\200_299\286.GIF
162,Norman Thagard (right) and Stephen Oswald unload samples from the biomedical rack on IML-1. (STS-42) ,IMAGE_pic1\1200_99\229.GIF
162,Norman Thagard working at the IML-1 fluids experiment system, which produces images of fluid flow during the processing of materials. (STS-42) ,IMAGE_pic1\1200_99\227.GIF
19,Off duty on STS-41G, astronauts Kathryn Sullivan (left) and Sally Ride show off the indescribable contraption they have made! ,IMAGE_pic1\600_699\677.GIF
298,Olympus in orbit, with solar panels deployed. It was launched into orbit by Ariane 3 on July 12, 1989. ,IMAGE_pic1\1400_99\400a.GIF
179,On a record fourth spacewalk from Endeavour, Kathryn Thornton (foreground) and Thomas Akers practise building structures similar to those that will be needed in the construction of the forthcoming space station. ,IMAGE_pic1\1000_99\20.GIF
156,On a second, planned EVA on STS-37, Jerry Ross prepares to move along a beam in the payload bay with the help of a mechanical cart (CETA, the crew and equipment translation aid). ,IMAGE_pic1\1100_99\123.GIF
8,On board Challenger on STS-41C in April 1984 the crew pose after successfully carrying out the recovery and repair of Solar Max. They are (from left): Francis Scobee, George Nelson, James van Hoften, Terry Hart, Robert Crippen. ,IMAGE_pic1\0_99\38.GIF
142,On board Discovery on the STS-26 mission George Nelson works on a biological experiment. ,IMAGE_pic1\500_599\525.GIF
165,On Columbia's mid-deck Bonnie Dunbar assembles a sample cartridge for the crystal growth furnace. (STS-50) ,IMAGE_pic1\1300_99\301.GIF
118,On Columbia's mid-deck Richard Truly gets down to some paperwork on the second shuttle mission (STS-2) in November 1981. ,IMAGE_pic1\0_99\13.GIF
121,On Columbia's mid-deck STS-5 astronaut Joseph Allen conducts an impromptu experiment to assess the effect of zero-g on custard desert! ,IMAGE_pic1\800_899\833.GIF
277,On command from Discovery, the HST's solar panels begin to unfurl. Note also the deployed antenna. ,IMAGE_pic1\1000_99\58f.GIF
157,On Discovery's aft flight deck Lacy Veach monitors data being collected by the instrument payload. (STS-39) ,IMAGE_pic1\1100_99\136.GIF
128,On Discovery's flight deck, the crew prepare for de-orbiting operations. Michael Coats is in the pilot's seat. (STS-41D) ,IMAGE_pic1\1800_99\827.GIF
132,On his unscheduled EVA on STS-51D, David Griggs peers through the flight deck window from outside in the payload bay. ,IMAGE_pic1\800_899\876.GIF
72,On July 17, 1975, Soyuz 19 is launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome. It is the Soviet half of the ASTP mission. ,IMAGE_pic1\100_199\132.GIF
132,On landing on the runway at the Kennedy Space Center at the end of STS-51D, Discovery suffered a blowout in one tyre and partial shredding of another. ,IMAGE_pic1\800_899\868.GIF
146,On May 4, 1989, Magellan is deployed from Atlantis (STS-30), the first stage on its journey to Venus. ,IMAGE_pic1\300_399\341.GIF
6,On November 15, 1966, the last Gemini mission is over. James Lovell and Edwin Aldrin are welcomed aboard the recovery ship USS 'Wasp'. (Gemini 12) ,IMAGE_pic1\1600_99\662.GIF
156,On reaching orbit, Atlantis' payload bay doors begin to open. Sitting in the payload bay is the massive GRO, one of NASA's so- called great observatories. (STS-37) ,IMAGE_pic1\1100_99\118.GIF
51,On reaching orbit, the Skylab 2 astronauts see the extent of the damage Skylab suffered during launch. ,IMAGE_pic1\1600_99\687.GIF
431,On some missions, Hermes docks with Europe's Columbus free-flying laboratory. ,IMAGE_pic1\1300_99\372.GIF
118,On STS-2, the second shuttle flight, the shuttle imaging radar (SIR) produced this image that picks out different terrain in the Hammersley Mountains of Western Australia. ,IMAGE_pic1\100_199\173.GIF
127,On STS-41C Challenger has a crew of thousands - of bees! They formed part of an experiment to see how well they built honeycombs in zero gravity. ,IMAGE_pic1\1800_99\823.GIF
129,On STS-41G Kathryn Sullivan and David Leestma chase their spacesuit helmets as they begin to prepare for EVA. ,IMAGE_pic1\800_899\840.GIF
124,On STS-8 William Thornton wires himself up for space medicine experiments. ,IMAGE_pic1\600_699\699.GIF
39,On the Apollo 15 mission James Irwin salutes the Stars and Stripes. This mission uses the lunar rover (right) for the first time. ,IMAGE_pic1\500_599\544.GIF
110,On the first manned Skylab mission (Skylab 2), Joseph Kerwin blowing bubbles! ,IMAGE_pic1\900_999\912.GIF
125,On the first Spacelab mission (STS-9, Spacelab 1) in November 1983 Owen Garriott (left) takes a blood sample from Byron Lichtenberg. ,IMAGE_pic1\0_99\44.GIF
164,On the record fourth EVA of the STS-49 mission, Kathy Thornton (left) and Tom Akers start to collect the struts they will use for their ASEM (assembly of station by EVA methods) activity. ,IMAGE_pic1\1200_99\288.GIF
105,On the recovery ship Iwo Jima are three very relieved Apollo 13 astronauts, their ordeal ended. They are (from the left): Fred Haise, John Swigert and James Lovell. ,IMAGE_pic1\800_899\835.GIF
110,On the Skylab 2 mission Owen Garriott makes a spacewalk to place an experiment on one of the ATM's solar panels. ,IMAGE_pic1\100_199\125.GIF
110,On the Skylab 2 mission, Dr Joseph Kerwin examines an upside-down Charles Conrad's mouth. ,IMAGE_pic1\300_399\335.GIF
61,On the Spacelab 3 mission (STS-51B) William Thornton is pictured with a fellow primate passenger, a squirrel monkey. The monkey is wondering why Dr Thornton is upside-down. ,IMAGE_pic1\500_599\535.GIF
61,On the Spacelab D1 mission (STS-61A) US astronaut Guion Bluford (left) is working in Spacelab with ESA's Rheinhard Furrer and Ernst Messerschmid. ,IMAGE_pic1\500_599\536.GIF
127,On the STS-41C mission George Nelson (left) and James van Hoften repair the Solar Max satellite in Challenger's payload bay. ,IMAGE_pic1\800_899\898.GIF
164,On the third EVA of the STS-49 mission, a trio of spacewalking astronauts finally manages to capture the errant Intelsat - by hand. From the left, they are Rick Hieb, Tom Akers and Pierre Thuot. ,IMAGE_pic1\1200_99\282.GIF
444,On the way to Venus and Mercury, Mariner 10 snaps the Moon from about 110,000 km. The dark region in the centre is Humboldt's Sea. ,IMAGE_pic1\1700_99\763.GIF
51,On-board photograph showing the partly deployed solar panel on Skylab's orbital workshop. ,IMAGE_pic1\1600_99\688.GIF
151,On-board portrait of the STS-36 crew on Atlantis (from the left): John Creighton, David Hilmers, Richard Mullane, Pierre Thuot and John Casper. ,IMAGE_pic1\1000_99\40.GIF
167,One corner of the massive crawler transporter used to carry the shuttle stack out to the launch pad. There are twin crawler tracks at each corner. ,IMAGE_pic1\900_999\902.GIF
162,One of the 'electronic still' photographs taken by a camera developed at the Johnson Space Center, which produces digitized images with a resolution approaching photographic film quality. The print features the flat-topped volcano Tolbachinsky on the Kamchatka Peninsula of Soviet eastern Asia.,IMAGE_pic1\1200_99\238.GIF
367,One of the antennas at British Telecom's communications satellite ground station at Goonhilly in Cornwall. It is locked on a comsat in geostationary orbit. ,IMAGE_pic1\700_799\770.GIF
70,One of the antennas of the Deep Space Network operated by Jet Propulsion Laboratory, near Madrid, Spain. ,IMAGE_pic1\1700_99\736.GIF
113,One of the ASTP cosmonauts signs the scroll commemorating the first international link-up in space. ,IMAGE_pic1\400_499\418.GIF
74,One of the beehive blockhouses at Cape Canaveral used as launch control centres for firing early launch vehicles, such as Redstones and Titans. ,IMAGE_pic1\200_299\291.GIF
22,One of the classic Apollo photographs, of Apollo 17 astronaut Harrison Schmitt, the "Stars and Stripes" and the distant Earth. ,IMAGE_pic1\200_299\207.GIF
165,One of the experiments on the USML, exploring the behaviour of liquid/vapour interfaces under zero-g conditions. (STS-50) ,IMAGE_pic1\1300_99\304.GIF
133,One of the extra members of the crew on the Spacelab 3 mission, a squirrel monkey that has been in training for the flight for some months. (STS-51B) ,IMAGE_pic1\1900_99\978.GIF
448,One of the many huge storm centres in Jupiter's thick atmosphere, pictured by Voyager 2. It is close to the planet's famous Great Red Spot. ,IMAGE_pic1\500_599\597.GIF
498,One of the most aptly named features in astronomy, the Horsehead nebula in Orion. ,IMAGE_pic1\900_999\933.GIF
498,One of the most beautiful of nebulae, the Trifid nebula (M20) in the constellation Sagittarius. ,IMAGE_pic1\900_999\958.GIF
449,One of the most beautiful pictures of Saturn and its rings, captured by Voyager 1 in October 1980. The three moons visible are (from top): Mimas, Enceladus and Tethys. ,IMAGE_pic1\700_799\733.GIF
499,One of the most famous of all telescopes, the 200-inch (508-cm) Hale telescope at Palomar Observatory, California. ,IMAGE_pic1\900_999\920.GIF
60,One of the most remarkable Skylab solar pictures, showing a massive prominence erupting from the surface. ,IMAGE_pic1\200_299\275.GIF
60,One of the spectacular false-colour pictures of the Sun's outer atmosphere, or corona, taken by the Skylab astronauts in 1973. ,IMAGE_pic1\100_199\136.GIF
141,One of the SRBs emerges from the fireball that blasted Challenger apart 73 seconds after lift-off on the STS-51L mission. ,IMAGE_pic1\200_299\297.GIF
121,One of the SRBs from the STS-5 shuttle parachuting back to Earth. ,IMAGE_pic1\1700_99\782.GIF
290,One of the transmit/receive dish antennas at the Goonhilly ground station in Cornwall, England, which is locked on to an Intelsat comsat in geostationary orbit. ,IMAGE_pic1\200_299\214.GIF
177,Orbiter Columbia trundles into the VAB for the first time on November 24, 1980, where it will be mated with its external tank and twin solid rocket boosters. ,IMAGE_pic1\1900_99\929.GIF
142,Orbiter Discovery is lowered to mate with the rest of the shuttle stack in the VAB. (STS-26) ,IMAGE_pic1\500_599\523.GIF
6,Outside Gemini this time, Edwin Aldrin works at a 'busy box'. In all on the Gemini 12 mission, he spends over five hours on EVA. ,IMAGE_pic1\1600_99\661.GIF
459,Overview of the Ulysses mission, giving the time scale of voyage of exploration. ,IMAGE_pic1\1300_99\385.GIF
51,Owen Garriott at the control console of the Apollo telescope mount, which carries the solar telescopes. (Skylab 3) ,IMAGE_pic1\1600_99\695.GIF
273,Panels of solar cells produce electricity from sunlight to power the instruments of satellites. This satellite is ESA's Exosat. ,IMAGE_pic1\500_599\516.GIF
114,Part of the lunar farside crater King, snapped from orbit. (Apollo 16) ,IMAGE_pic1\1600_99\616.GIF
109,Part of the Sea of Serenity, photographed from lunar orbit, showing a prominent rille (channel) at bottom right. (Apollo 17) ,IMAGE_pic1\1600_99\629.GIF
480,Part of the Viking 1 lander can be seen in this close-up picture of the Chryse plain of Mars. The tool on the right is the digging arm used to pick up soil samples. ,IMAGE_pic1\200_299\201.GIF
109,Particles of the strange orange soil found at the Taurus-Littrow landing site. They are tiny specks of glass. (Apollo 17) ,IMAGE_pic1\1600_99\635.GIF
73,Passing over the Johnson Space Center, Houston, is NASA's Super Guppy, used now for transporting space shuttle parts and previously during the Apollo and Skylab projects. ,IMAGE_pic1\500_599\527.GIF
179,Payload commander Mark Lee emerges into Endeavour's crew cabin from the tunnel leading to Spacelab. He is pointing to a sign in Japanese, meaning Exit/Entrance. (STS-47) ,IMAGE_pic1\1300_99\333.GIF
125,Payload specialist Byron Lichtenberg carries out an experiment at the fluid physics module during Spacelab's hectic 10-day flight. (STS-9) ,IMAGE_pic1\1800_99\814.GIF
74,Perched atop the shuttle carrier aircraft, Columbia begins its journey from Edwards Air Force Base to the Kennedy Space Center in March 1979. ,IMAGE_pic1\0_99\28.GIF
118,Photographed from a T-38 jet, Columbia streaks into the sky on its historic second launch. ,IMAGE_pic1\1700_99\776.GIF
164,Pictured in the white room that gives access to Endeavour's crew cabin are Rick Hieb and Kathy Thornton. (STS-49) ,IMAGE_pic1\1200_99\277.GIF
166,Pictured on Atlantis' forward flight deck are the 'blue shift' members of the STS-46 crew. From the left, they are pilot Andrew Allen, Italian payload specialist Franco Malerba and Swiss scientist Claude Nicollier of ESA. ,IMAGE_pic1\1300_99\315.GIF
164,Pictured on Pad 39B at the Kennedy Space Center are the crew for Endeavour's maiden flight, STS-49, on which they will attempt to capture a satellite. From the left they are: Pierre Thuot, Rick Hieb, Dan Brandenstein, Kevin Chilton, Tom Akers, Kathy Thornton and Bruce Melnick. ,IMAGE_pic1\1200_99\270.GIF
164,Pictured through the overhead window on Endeavour's aft flight deck, Pierre Thuot tries in vain to latch the grapple device on to the Intelsat. (STS-49) ,IMAGE_pic1\1200_99\281.GIF
166,Pictured with the crescent Moon, the tethered satellite is now over 150 metres from the shuttle. But after another 100 metres or so, the paying-out mechanism jams, and the satellite has to be wound back. (STS-46) ,IMAGE_pic1\1300_99\322a.GIF
178,Piggy-back atop the shuttle carrier aircraft, Discovery flies in to the Kennedy Space Center for the first time, to be prepared for its first flight in August 1984. ,IMAGE_pic1\900_999\910.GIF
163,Pilot Brian Duffy struggles to get to grips with his paperwork on Atlantis' flight deck. (STS-45) ,IMAGE_pic1\1200_99\259.GIF
153,Pilot Robert Cabana carries out an eye test on William Shepherd using a probe called a tonometer. (STS-41) ,IMAGE_pic1\1000_99\91.GIF
442,Pioneer 10 took this picture of Jupiter's Great Red Spot in December 1973, which shows greater detail than any telescope photograph. ,IMAGE_pic1\100_199\102.GIF
443,Pioneer Saturn (Pioneer 11) snapped this picture of Saturn in August 1979 when it became the first probe to visit the planet. The moon visible is Tethys. ,IMAGE_pic1\200_299\262.GIF
443,Pioneer-Saturn (Pioneer 11) returned this image of Saturn in August 1979. The moon in the picture is Titan. ,IMAGE_pic1\600_699\602.GIF
450,Pioneer-Venus being prepared for its flight to Venus, when it will launch probes into the planet's deep atmosphere. ,IMAGE_pic1\700_799\767.GIF
55,Plans have been advanced for vehicles to return Freedom's crew quickly to Earth in an emergency. These are four concepts being considered. (CERV = crew emergency return vehicle). ,IMAGE_pic1\1900_99\949.GIF
153,Posing for the traditional on-board photograph are the STS-41 crew, who are (from the left): Thomas Akers, Richard Richards, Bruce Melnick, Robert Cabana and William Shepherd. ,IMAGE_pic1\1000_99\89.GIF
161,Pre-flight crew portrait of the STS-44 astronauts, who are, from the left: Terence (Tom) Henricks, James Voss, Frederick Gregory, Thomas Hennen, Story Musgrave and Mario Runco. ,IMAGE_pic1\1200_99\208.GIF
162,Pre-flight portrait of the STS-42 crew, against a backdrop of Discovery lifting off the launch pad. The astronauts, from the left, are: Stephen Oswald, Roberta Bondar, Norman Thagard, Ronald Grabe, David Hilmers, Ulf Merbold and William Readdy. ,IMAGE_pic1\1200_99\224a.GIF
72,Preparations are made on the Energia launch pad at Baikonur for the maiden flight of Buran in November 1988. ,IMAGE_pic1\300_399\379.GIF
2,President John F Kennedy accepting a model Apollo CSM on a visit to the Manned Spacecraft Center, Houston, in 1962. Looking on (centre) is Lyndon B Johnson, after whom the Center is now named. ,IMAGE_pic1\0_99\19.GIF
2,President John F Kennedy delivering his historic speech before the US Congress on May 25, 1961, in which he exhorted the nation to land a man of the Moon "before the decade is out". ,IMAGE_pic1\100_199\134.GIF
414,Progress launch: tracking antenna follows the launch vehicle as it heads into the high atmosphere. ,IMAGE_pic1\400_499\404.GIF
102,Recovery operations in the Pacific after the splashdown of Apollo 10 on May 26, 1969, by a helicopter from the recovery ship USS 'Princeton'. ,IMAGE_pic1\1400_99\493.GIF
105,Relief at Mission Control, Houston, after the successful return and pick-up of the Apollo 13 astronauts. ,IMAGE_pic1\1500_99\541.GIF
132,Rhea Seddon begins work on a 'flyswatter' device to try to snag a switch on the 'dead' Leasat 3 satellite. (STS-51D) ,IMAGE_pic1\1800_99\856.GIF
95,Richard Gordon astride the Agena target vehicle on his EVA from Gemini 11 in September 1966. ,IMAGE_pic1\500_599\562.GIF
34,Richard Truly (left) and Joe Engle have nearly completed their suiting up in pressurized flight suits for the second shuttle mission. ,IMAGE_pic1\700_799\780.GIF
118,Richard Truly and Joe Engle leave for the launch pad to prepare for Columbia's second trip into space (STS-2). ,IMAGE_pic1\700_799\711.GIF
34,Richard Truly suits up in the early morning of November 12, 1981, in preparation for the second shuttle flight, STS-2. ,IMAGE_pic1\700_799\779.GIF
133,Riding on Atlantis' RMS arm, Sherwood Spring fixes a section of the growing ACCESS structure during STS-51B in November 1985. ,IMAGE_pic1\200_299\210.GIF
136,Riding on Discovery's robot arm above Brazil, James van Hoften has just re deployed the repaired Leasat 3. (STS-51I) ,IMAGE_pic1\1800_99\884.GIF
1,Robert Goddard (second from right) pictured at the New Mexico test range with one of his rockets in 1932. ,IMAGE_pic1\0_99\26.GIF
1,Robert Goddard poses with his rocket prior to firing it on March 16, 1926. It was the first ever liquid-propelled rocket to fly. ,IMAGE_pic1\0_99\27.GIF
121,Robert Overmyer on Columbia's flight deck during the STS-5 mission. Behind him is a window looking into the payload bay. ,IMAGE_pic1\1700_99\784.GIF
133,Robert Overmyer taking Earth photographs with a special camera. (STS-51B) ,IMAGE_pic1\1800_99\863.GIF
154,Robert Springer is pictured on the aft flight deck of Atlantis during the STS-38 mission, dedicated to the Department of Defence. ,IMAGE_pic1\1000_99\95.GIF
0,Rocket expert Wernher Von Braun (second from right) with other members of the army rocket team at Huntsville, Alabama, in 1956. In the foreground is the legendary Hermann Oberth. ,IMAGE_pic1\0_99\25.GIF
108,Rollout from the VAB of the Apollo 16/Saturn V stack on December 13, 1971. ,IMAGE_pic1\1500_99\596.GIF
426,Rollout of the first Ariane 4 launch vehicle to the ELA 2 launch pad at the Kourou Space Centre. ,IMAGE_pic1\1400_99\412.GIF
32,Ronald Evans in the gondola of the centrifuge during training for Apollo flights at the Johnson Space Center, Houston. ,IMAGE_pic1\700_799\762.GIF
109,Ronald Evans performs a deep space EVA as Apollo 17 makes its way back to Earth. He retrieves film cassettes from the Moon-scanning cameras. ,IMAGE_pic1\700_799\720.GIF
8,Rookie Robert Crippen (left) and veteran John Young familiarize themselves with Columbia before the first shuttle flight (STS-1). ,IMAGE_pic1\0_99\7.GIF
278,Rosat image of the powerful X-ray source Cygnus X-2, thought to be a neutron star orbiting a normal star. X-rays are produced when matter from the normal star is attracted to the superdense neutron star. ,IMAGE_pic1\1000_99\77.GIF
278,Rosat X-ray picture of the constellation Auriga (the Charioteer), showing a hitherto unknown supernova remnant. ,IMAGE_pic1\1000_99\75.GIF
278,Rosat X-ray picture of the remnants of a supernova seen in 1572 by the Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe, which was called Tycho's star. ,IMAGE_pic1\1000_99\74.GIF
101,Russell Schweickart stands on the porch of 'Spider' during Apollo 9 EVA operations. ,IMAGE_pic1\1400_99\474.GIF
126,Safing operations are underway after Challenger's touchdown at the Kennedy Space Center. (STS-41B) ,IMAGE_pic1\1800_99\821.GIF
489,Saturn and its rings backlit by the Sun. This makes the middle B ring darker than the others, though it appears much brighter in the Sun. (Voyager 2) ,IMAGE_pic1\700_799\735.GIF
489,Saturn and its rings, pictured by Voyager 2 in July 1981. The banding on the disc is more distinct than it was when Voyager 1 flew by. The moons are Rhea (due south of the planet) and Dione. ,IMAGE_pic1\700_799\734.GIF
103,Saturn V blasts off the launch pad on July 16, 1969, carrying Apollo 11, first into Earth orbit and thence to the Moon. ,IMAGE_pic1\800_899\804.GIF
114,Saturn V/Apollo operations: Apollo CSM fires its thrusters to pull the LM away from the third stage. Apollo is now in its proper configuration for the translunar journey. ,IMAGE_pic1\300_399\313.GIF
114,Saturn V/Apollo operations: Lift-off and first stage separation. ,IMAGE_pic1\300_399\309.GIF
449,Saturn's largest moon Titan in simulated natural colour. The moon is unique in the solar system because it has a thick atmosphere. (Voyager 1) ,IMAGE_pic1\700_799\739.GIF
449,Saturn's moon Dione, made up of a mixture of rock and ice. (Voyager 1) ,IMAGE_pic1\700_799\738.GIF
448,Saturn's moon Hyperion is an irregularly shaped body some 375 km across. (Voyager 2) ,IMAGE_pic1\500_599\584.GIF
489,Saturn's rings from 4 million km, showing the mysterious spokes in the B ring. (Voyager 2) ,IMAGE_pic1\600_699\631.GIF
114,Saturn/Apollo operations: Apollo CSM separates and fires its thrusters to turn round; then it docks with the LM, which is inside the third-stage shroud. ,IMAGE_pic1\300_399\312.GIF
272,Scattered throughout our Galaxy are puffs of gaseous "cirrus clouds", which IRAS spotted on its all-sky survey. ,IMAGE_pic1\200_299\267.GIF
73,Scene at Mission Control, Houston, just prior to the launch of Apollo on the ASTP mission on July 15, 1975. ,IMAGE_pic1\400_499\423.GIF
107,Scene at Mission Control, Houston, when it takes over control of the Apollo 15 mission. ,IMAGE_pic1\1500_99\574a.GIF
106,Scene in the control room of Kennedy Space Center's launch control centre during the lift-off Apollo 14. ,IMAGE_pic1\1500_99\549.GIF
441,Scene inside Mariner mission control room at Jet Propulsion Laboratory in November 1971. Mariner 9 is now in Martian orbit. ,IMAGE_pic1\1700_99\754.GIF
103,Scene inside Mission Control, Houston, during the first historic lunar EVA. (Apollo 11) ,IMAGE_pic1\1500_99\507.GIF
129,Scene on board Challenger on STS-41G. Pilot Jon McBride is working; a floating Kathryn Sullivan and commander Robert Crippen look on. ,IMAGE_pic1\900_999\985.GIF
41,Scene on the Russian steppe following the touchdown of a Soyuz descent capsule. In the foreground is the braking parachute. ,IMAGE_pic1\400_499\412.GIF
31,Scuba divers assist astronauts training for EVA in the water tank at the Johnson Space Center. ,IMAGE_pic1\500_599\590.GIF
122,Securely attached to the safety tether, Story Musgrave floats above Challenger's payload bay. (STS-6) ,IMAGE_pic1\1700_99\799.GIF
153,Seen through a fish-eye lens on Discovery's flight deck are mission specialists Bruce Melnick and William Shepherd, seen here communicating with Mission Control. (STS-41) ,IMAGE_pic1\1000_99\90.GIF
277,Series of colour Hubble space telescope pictures showing the quasar 120+101. Astronomers think this is a double image of the same body, split by the 'gravitational lens' effect of an intervening massive galaxy. ,IMAGE_pic1\1000_99\62.GIF
55,Service engineer's view of Freedom's main modules on a routine inspection of the space station. ,IMAGE_pic1\1900_99\945.GIF
104,Setting up the ALSEP scientific station during the Apollo 12 lunar EVA. ,IMAGE_pic1\1500_99\528.GIF
102,Shallow channels snake across the Sea of Tranquillity in this Apollo 10 photograph. ,IMAGE_pic1\1400_99\492.GIF
159,Shannon Lucid and John Blaha carry out an experiment to do with polymers, on Atlantis' mid-deck. (STS-43) ,IMAGE_pic1\1100_99\178.GIF
159,Shannon Lucid pictured on Atlantis' mid-deck checking a sample during a biotechnology experiment. (STS-43) ,IMAGE_pic1\1100_99\177.GIF
139,Sherwood Spring connecting pieces of the EASE system together to make a beam structure on the STS-61B mission in November 1985. ,IMAGE_pic1\0_99\55.GIF
459,Shortly after reaching orbit, the Discovery astronauts deploy the Ulysses probe, seen here against the blackness of space attached to its booster rocket. (STS-41) ,IMAGE_pic1\1000_99\87.GIF
118,Shuttle imaging radar view of the Sahara Desert (strip), showing features below the sandy surface that are invisible in the equivalent Landsat image (colour). (STS-2) ,IMAGE_pic1\1700_99\778.GIF
448,Simulated natural colour picture of the south polar region of Triton, showing a prominent dark plume. (Voyager 2) ,IMAGE_pic1\600_699\621.GIF
51,Skylab 3 Earth photography: the Andes Mountains, looking south over Argentina and Chile. ,IMAGE_pic1\1700_99\701.GIF
51,Skylab 3 Earth photography: the Manicouagan impact structure in Quebec, Canada. ,IMAGE_pic1\1700_99\702.GIF
112,Skylab 4 astronauts Gerald Carr, Edward Gibson and William Pogue, who spent 84 days in space in 1973/74, still a US record. ,IMAGE_pic1\600_699\658.GIF
51,Skylab 4 Earth photography: a vast cyclone winding itself up over the South Pacific. ,IMAGE_pic1\1700_99\711.GIF
51,Skylab 4 Earth photography: part of the Murray River Basin in Victoria, Australia. The prominent feature lower left is the dry Lake Tyrrell. ,IMAGE_pic1\1700_99\713.GIF
51,Skylab 4 Earth photography: snow blankets the Rocky Mountains and Great Plains during the winter of 1973/74. ,IMAGE_pic1\1700_99\712.GIF
482,Skylab astronauts snapped this picture of a curious looped prominence shooting high above the Sun's surface. ,IMAGE_pic1\800_899\885.GIF
60,Skylab plunged to Earth in July 1979. The debris that fell in Western Australia includes this oxygen tank. ,IMAGE_pic1\200_299\277.GIF
496,Solar eclipse, Hawaii, July 11, 1991 - A. Sunrise on eclipse day. ,IMAGE_pic1\900_999\970.GIF
496,Solar eclipse, Hawaii, July 11, 1991 - B. The Moon starts to move over the face of the Sun. ,IMAGE_pic1\900_999\971.GIF
496,Solar eclipse, Hawaii, July 11, 1991 - D. The moment immediately before eclipse, when only a fraction of the solar disc remains uncovered. ,IMAGE_pic1\900_999\973.GIF
496,Solar eclipse, Hawaii, July 11, 1991 - E. Eclipse is total. ,IMAGE_pic1\900_999\974.GIF
496,Solar eclipse, Hawaii, July 11, 1991 - F. Panoramic view of the eclipse site at totality. ,IMAGE_pic1\900_999\975.GIF
496,Solar eclipse, Hawaii, July 11, 1991 - H. During totality two vivid prominences were visible top and bottom. ,IMAGE_pic1\900_999\977.GIF
496,Solar eclipse, Hawaii, July 11, 1991 - I. A longer- exposure photograph shows the corona, the Sun's outer atmosphere. ,IMAGE_pic1\900_999\978.GIF
496,Solar eclipse, Hawaii, July 11, 1991 - K. The 'diamond ring' shows as the Sun begins to emerge from behind the Moon. ,IMAGE_pic1\900_999\980.GIF
496,Solar eclipse, Hawaii, July 11, 1991 - L. Just a thin sliver of Sun is now exposed. ,IMAGE_pic1\900_999\981.GIF
496,Solar eclipse, Hawaii, July 11, 1991 - M. Daylight returns as the Sun comes out again. ,IMAGE_pic1\900_999\982.GIF
135,Some of the instruments mounted on pallets in Challenger's payload bay for the Spacelab 2 instrument-only flight. (STS-51F) ,IMAGE_pic1\1800_99\874.GIF
74,Some of the launch vehicles on display in the 'rocket park' of the Visitors Center at the Kennedy Space Center. The one on the right is a Saturn IB. ,IMAGE_pic1\800_899\897.GIF
104,Sorting out the ALSEP scientific experiments near the lunar module. ,IMAGE_pic1\1500_99\524.GIF
24,Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova pictured receiving the British Interplanetary Society's medal in February 1964, eight months after her historic mission in Vostok 6. ,IMAGE_pic1\0_99\58.GIF
113,Soyuz 16 lifts off the launch pad at Baikonur at the beginning of the Soviet part of the ASTP mission. ,IMAGE_pic1\400_499\413.GIF
41,Soyuz descent/re-entry module with landing parachute; note the scorch marks made by re-entry heating; Baikonur Space Museum. ,IMAGE_pic1\300_399\373.GIF
113,Soyuz pictured against a cloudy backdrop during the ASTP mission in July 1975. ,IMAGE_pic1\400_499\421.GIF
176,Space shuttle orbiter Challenger being ferried to the Kennedy Space Center on the shuttle carrier aircraft. ,IMAGE_pic1\600_699\639.GIF
51,Space spider Arabella makes a passable job of web-spinning, despite the weightless conditions in Skylab. (Skylab 3) ,IMAGE_pic1\1600_99\699.GIF
61,Spacelab in orbit in Endeavour's payload bay, carrying ESA's Spacelab emblem on the left and the mission emblem on the right. (STS-47) ,IMAGE_pic1\1300_99\332.GIF
61,Spacelab is lowered into the payload bay of Columbia ready for its maiden flight, scheduled for November 1983. At left is the pressurized laboratory; at right the open pallets. ,IMAGE_pic1\0_99\89.GIF
135,Spacelab pallets carrying a full load of telescopes and other instruments, before installation in Challenger for the STS-51F Spacelab 2 mission in July 1985. ,IMAGE_pic1\1900_99\977.GIF
168,SRB being tested after redesign following the Challenger disaster in January 1986. ,IMAGE_pic1\700_799\783.GIF
499,Star trails over the domes of the Kapteyn and the Isaac Newton telescopes at the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory on La Palma, in the Canary Islands. ,IMAGE_pic1\900_999\924.GIF
270,Stars in the Eta Carinae nebula, pictured by the X-ray satellite Einstein (HEAO-2). ,IMAGE_pic1\500_599\540.GIF
446,Steep cliffs circle the summit crater of Mars' huge volcano, Olympus Mons, which is some 65 km across. This model is based on Viking photos. ,IMAGE_pic1\200_299\274.GIF
7,Still in the Gemini 8 capsule after splashdown on March 18, 1966, are David Scott (left) and Neil Armstrong. ,IMAGE_pic1\0_99\72.GIF
161,Story Musgrave helps Tom Henricks into the lower body negative pressure equipment, which is used to monitor body circulation under different conditions. (STS-44) ,IMAGE_pic1\1200_99\211.GIF
122,Story Musgrave working in Challenger's payload bay during the first shuttle EVA. (STS-6) ,IMAGE_pic1\1700_99\797.GIF
74,Strangely, the Kennedy Space Center is a wildlife haven for birds, such as this egret. ,IMAGE_pic1\600_699\653.GIF
57,Streaking into orbit towards space station Freedom early next century is the US national aerospace plane, nicknamed the Orient Express. ,IMAGE_pic1\100_199\108.GIF
8,STS-1 astronauts John Young (left) and Robert Crippen take part in emergency escape training on the pad at the Kennedy Space Center. ,IMAGE_pic1\800_899\875.GIF
118,STS-2 astronauts Joe Engle and Dick Truly prepare to enter Columbia's cabin shortly before lift-off on November 12, 1981. ,IMAGE_pic1\1700_99\775.GIF
118,STS-2 astronauts Joe Engle and Richard Truly head for the launch pad, where Columbia waits to makes its second flight into space. ,IMAGE_pic1\700_799\795.GIF
118,STS-2 commander Joe Engle gets in some exercise on Columbia's treadmill during the second shuttle mission in November 1981. ,IMAGE_pic1\100_199\130.GIF
154,STS-38 pilot Frank Culbertson gets in some flying practice in a T-38 jet as he flies from Houston to the Kennedy Space Center in June 1990. ,IMAGE_pic1\1000_99\94.GIF
127,STS-41C Earth photography: Ash covers the slopes of the Mexican volcano El Chacon, which recently erupted, sending vast amounts of ash into the high atmosphere. ,IMAGE_pic1\1900_99\979.GIF
128,STS-41D commander, Henry Hartsfield loads film into the IMAX camera in orbit. IMAX films have given the public spectacular experiences of shuttle missions. ,IMAGE_pic1\800_899\800.GIF
128,STS-41D payload specialist Charles Walker conducts a biological experiment on the mid-deck of Discovery. ,IMAGE_pic1\800_899\849.GIF
129,STS-41G Earth photography: An excellent view of Egypt, the Nile Delta and the Suez Canal. ,IMAGE_pic1\1800_99\834.GIF
129,STS-41G Earth photography: North Africa and Arabia, with the Red Sea (bottom) and the Mediterranean (top). ,IMAGE_pic1\1800_99\833.GIF
162,STS-42 mission commander Ronald Grabe puts in some exercise on the shuttle treadmill. ,IMAGE_pic1\1200_99\231.GIF
161,STS-44 mission commander Frederick Gregory communicates with ground control, wearing a cap honouring his alma mater, the Air Force Academy. ,IMAGE_pic1\1200_99\214.GIF
161,STS-44 view of the South China Sea and at right the Philippine island of Luzon. North is to the top. Manila Bay is near bottom right. The currently active and ash-covered volcano Mount Pinatubo is visible further north-west. ,IMAGE_pic1\1200_99\219.GIF
163,STS-45 view of Mount St Helens in Washington State, surrounded by the ash cover that resulted from the May 1980 eruption of the dormant volcano. The snow-covered peaks to the north are Mount Rainier (left) and Mount Adams. ,IMAGE_pic1\1200_99\265.GIF
160,STS-48 view of the Bolivian Andes in South America. The lake is Lake Poopo. At top, haze caused by seasonal burning masks the Amazon Basin. ,IMAGE_pic1\1100_99\197.GIF
164,STS-49 mission specialist Kathryn Thornton being presented with a T-shirt send-off gift just before launch on May 7, 1992, in the 'white room', which gives access to Endeavour's upper deck. ,IMAGE_pic1\1000_99\17.GIF
121,STS-5 astronauts capture this spectacular sunrise scene, one of the 16 they witness every 24 hours. ,IMAGE_pic1\1700_99\791.GIF
121,STS-5 astronauts deploy their second commercial satellite, Canada's Anik C3 comsat. ,IMAGE_pic1\1700_99\786.GIF
130,STS-51A Earth photography: A fascinating late-evening cloudscape over South America. ,IMAGE_pic1\1800_99\851.GIF
130,STS-51A Earth photography: Africa's Namib Desert and a cloud- covered Atlantic Ocean. ,IMAGE_pic1\1800_99\850.GIF
130,STS-51A Earth photography: Fort Meyers, Florida, and the Gulf of Mexico. ,IMAGE_pic1\1800_99\849.GIF
130,STS-51A Earth photography: Magdalena Bay, Baja California, a prime mating areas for California grey whales. ,IMAGE_pic1\1800_99\848.GIF
130,STS-51A Earth photography: Typhoon Bill over the Marianas Islands in the South Pacific. ,IMAGE_pic1\1800_99\852.GIF
135,STS-51F Earth photography: The 'heel' of Italy and the Gulf of Taranto. ,IMAGE_pic1\1800_99\879.GIF
134,STS-51G Earth photography: Sun-glint on the Atlantic Ocean off Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. ,IMAGE_pic1\1800_99\871.GIF
136,STS-51I astronaut William Fisher has his feet anchored to Discovery's payload bay as he gets to grip with Leasat 3. ,IMAGE_pic1\800_899\884.GIF
138,STS-61A Earth photography: Hurricane Juan spiralling in the Gulf of Mexico. ,IMAGE_pic1\1800_99\893.GIF
138,STS-61A Earth photography: Hurricane Juan winding itself up over the Gulf of Mexico. ,IMAGE_pic1\1900_99\984.GIF
106,Stuart Roosa is hauled aboard a helicopter from the recovery ship USS 'New Orleans'. (Apollo 14) ,IMAGE_pic1\1500_99\565.GIF
114,Stuart Roosa, Alan Shepard and Edgar Mitchell peer out from the mobile quarantine facility on board USS 'New Orleans'. (Apollo 14) ,IMAGE_pic1\1500_99\566.GIF
467,Surveyor 1 photographs its own shadow on the Moon on June 13, 1966, shortly before lunar sunset. ,IMAGE_pic1\1700_99\735.GIF
104,Surveyor 3 on the Ocean of Storms, where it has been for more than two years, pictured by the Apollo 12 astronauts. ,IMAGE_pic1\1500_99\526.GIF
158,Tamara Jernigan at work in the glove box, or general purpose work station in Spacelab. (STS-40) ,IMAGE_pic1\1100_99\159.GIF
133,Taylor Wang moving through the access tunnel from Challenger's mid-deck to the Spacelab laboratory module. (STS-51B) ,IMAGE_pic1\1800_99\864.GIF
142,TDRS-3 lifts out of Discovery's payload bay on STS-26 in September 1988. Soon it will be soaring to geostationary orbit. ,IMAGE_pic1\100_199\117.GIF
34,Technicians at the Johnson Space Center demonstrate the shuttle spacesuit and personal rescue enclosure, for emergency use by astronauts without a spacesuit. ,IMAGE_pic1\700_799\776.GIF
144,Technicians at the Kennedy Space Center inspect a segment that will be assembled into one of the SRBs for the STS-27 mission. ,IMAGE_pic1\600_699\640.GIF
278,Technicians carry out final preparations on the German Rosat (Roentgen satellite), which is launched by Delta from Cape Canaveral on June 1, 1990. ,IMAGE_pic1\1000_99\73.GIF
277,Technicians inspect the coating of the 2.4-metre diameter primary mirror of the Hubble Space Telescope. ,IMAGE_pic1\300_399\342.GIF
178,Technicians manoeuvre one of Discovery's main engines into place after an overhaul. ,IMAGE_pic1\500_599\524.GIF
99,Technicians mate the CSM with the Saturn V launch vehicle in the VAB prior to the first manned Apollo mission, Apollo 7. ,IMAGE_pic1\0_99\16.GIF
143,Technicians move in to examine Buran's tail section after the Soviet shuttle's first flight. ,IMAGE_pic1\800_899\836.GIF
499,Telescope domes at the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory on La Palma in the Canary Islands. It is well located above the clouds. ,IMAGE_pic1\500_599\539.GIF
499,Telescope domes dot the skyline at Kitt Peak Observatory in Arizona. The dome on the right houses a 4-metre reflector. ,IMAGE_pic1\900_999\941.GIF
142,Tension is palpable in Mission Control as Discovery is launched on the first shuttle flight since the Challenger disaster. (STS- 26) ,IMAGE_pic1\1900_99\905.GIF
142,Testing a new shuttle escape system to allow escape from the orbiter in an emergency situation in the atmosphere. ,IMAGE_pic1\800_899\834.GIF
36,Testing the Apollo escape system, designed to pull the command module away from the launch vehicle in an emergency. ,IMAGE_pic1\1600_99\674.GIF
36,Testing the Apollo escape system: the command module separates. ,IMAGE_pic1\1600_99\675.GIF
467,Testing the Surveyor space probe, the first of which soft-landed on the Moon on June 1, 1966. ,IMAGE_pic1\1700_99\734.GIF
503,The -metre radio telescope at Green Bank, West Virginia, before its collapse in the late 1980s. ,IMAGE_pic1\900_999\949.GIF
132,The "flyswatter" Discovery's crew rigged up on the STS-51D mission (April 1985) in an attempt to activate the dead Leasat 3. ,IMAGE_pic1\0_99\53.GIF
163,The 'Freedom Star' returns to Port Canaveral with one of Atlantis' two solid rocket boosters. (STS-45) ,IMAGE_pic1\1200_99\253.GIF
166,The 1.6-metre diameter tethered satellite begins to move away from the deployment boom that extends from the support structure in the payload bay. (STS-46) ,IMAGE_pic1\1300_99\320.GIF
499,The 3.9-metre reflector, Anglo-Australian Telescope, at the Siding Spring Observatory in New South Wales, Australia. ,IMAGE_pic1\900_999\922.GIF
128,The 32-metre long dummy solar cell array deployed on STS-41D. ,IMAGE_pic1\800_899\857.GIF
164,The 5-tonne Intelsat floats into view, against an appropriate backdrop of the Atlantic Ocean and Cape Canaveral. (STS-49) ,IMAGE_pic1\1200_99\280.GIF
150,The 57 experiments on the LDEF were carried on trays like this (centre). This unit was used for cosmic-ray study. ,IMAGE_pic1\1000_99\35.GIF
503,The 64-metre dish radio telescope at Parkes, New South Wales, Australia, used particularly to study quasars. It was also used to gather the signals from Voyager 2 at Uranus and Neptune. ,IMAGE_pic1\900_999\942.GIF
328,The 76-metre diameter radio telescope at Jodrell Bank, Cheshire, one of the largest fully steerable instruments in the world. Its early triumph was to track Sputnik 1, the world's first artificial satellite. ,IMAGE_pic1\900_999\950.GIF
328,The 76-metre diameter radio telescope at Jodrell Bank, Cheshire, one of the largest fully steerable instruments in the world. Its early triumph was to track Sputnik 1, the world's first artificial satellite.,IMAGE_pic1\900_999\950.GIF
386,The Agena stage of the Atlas-Agena launch vehicle in orbit. At right is a docking collar, into which Gemini spacecraft could dock. ,IMAGE_pic1\1600_99\638.GIF
93,The Agena target vehicle pictured by the Gemini 9 astronauts. The conical shroud, which made the vehicle look like an "angry alligator", was still in place, making docking impossible. ,IMAGE_pic1\500_599\565.GIF
497,The Andromeda galaxy, or M31, one of the very few outer galaxies we can see with the naked eye. ,IMAGE_pic1\500_599\596.GIF
102,The Apollo 10 astronauts get a traditional South Seas welcome when they arrive in American Samoa. From the left, they are: Eugene Cernan, Thomas Stafford and John Young. ,IMAGE_pic1\1400_99\495.GIF
102,The Apollo 10 crew (from the left) Thomas Stafford, Eugene Cernan and John Young speak to President Nixon after their flawless mission. ,IMAGE_pic1\1400_99\494.GIF
102,The Apollo 10 crew, who will make the second journey to the Moon. From the left, they are: Eugene Cernan, Thomas Stafford and John Young. ,IMAGE_pic1\1400_99\483.GIF
6,The Apollo 11 astronauts are feted with a ticker-tape parade as they visit New York after their historic mission. ,IMAGE_pic1\100_199\160.GIF
103,The Apollo 11 astronauts just missed this crater when they landed. ,IMAGE_pic1\1500_99\508.GIF
103,The Apollo 11 astronauts snapped this picture of a gibbous Earth while they were speeding towards the Moon in July 1969. ,IMAGE_pic1\100_199\121.GIF
6,The Apollo 11 crew (from left to right): Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins and "Buzz" Aldrin. ,IMAGE_pic1\0_99\1.GIF
103,The Apollo 11 CSM pictured from the LM over the Moon's Sea of Fertility during the first Moon-landing mission, July 1969. ,IMAGE_pic1\700_799\729.GIF
103,The Apollo 11 lunar module approaches its landing site on the Moon's Sea of Tranquillity in July 1969. The large crater in the picture is Maskelyne. ,IMAGE_pic1\700_799\717.GIF
103,The Apollo 11 lunar module in lunar orbit about to dock with the CSM after its stay on the surface in July 1969. ,IMAGE_pic1\100_199\124.GIF
103,The Apollo 11 stack makes its way to the launch pad in May 1969 two months before it will lift off on the first Moon-landing mission. ,IMAGE_pic1\800_899\803.GIF
104,The Apollo 12 astronauts, from the left: Charles Conrad, Richard Gordon and Alan Bean. ,IMAGE_pic1\1500_99\518.GIF
104,The Apollo 12 lunar module 'Intrepid' about to descend to make the second lunar landing. ,IMAGE_pic1\1500_99\522.GIF
104,The Apollo 12 lunar module 'Intrepid' landed within walking distance of Surveyor 3. ,IMAGE_pic1\1500_99\527.GIF
104,The Apollo 12/Saturn V stack stands on the launch pad, being readied for its November 1969 mission. ,IMAGE_pic1\1500_99\519.GIF
105,The Apollo 13 command module is hauled aboard the recovery ship USS 'Iwo Jima' after splashdown in the Pacific on April 17, 1970. ,IMAGE_pic1\1500_99\540.GIF
106,The Apollo 14 astronauts await pick-up in the life raft. ,IMAGE_pic1\1500_99\564.GIF
106,The Apollo 14 astronauts conducting a seismic experiment. Edgar Mitchell (foreground) operates the 'thumper', which sets up shock waves in the ground. ,IMAGE_pic1\1500_99\556.GIF
106,The Apollo 14 CSM 'Kitty Hawk' in lunar orbit prior to docking operations after the lunar landing. ,IMAGE_pic1\1500_99\560a.GIF
106,The Apollo 14 lunar module 'Antares' safely down in the Fra Mauro region of the Moon on February 5, 1971. ,IMAGE_pic1\1500_99\551.GIF
107,The Apollo 15 astronauts left behind on the Moon a plaque commemorating 14 US and Soviet astronauts who have perished during the space programme. The figure represents a fallen astronaut. ,IMAGE_pic1\1500_99\586.GIF
107,The Apollo 15 command module splashes down in the Pacific north of Hawaii on August 7, 1971. ,IMAGE_pic1\1500_99\590.GIF
107,The Apollo 15 crew (from the left) David Scott, Alfred Worden and James Irwin, listening to welcoming speeches aboard the recovery ship USS 'Okinawa'. ,IMAGE_pic1\1500_99\591.GIF
107,The Apollo 15 CSM 'Endeavour' pictured in lunar orbit from the lunar module before the two craft dock. ,IMAGE_pic1\1500_99\588.GIF
107,The Apollo 16 astronauts snap this beautiful picture of the Full Moon as they head for a fourth lunar landing. ,IMAGE_pic1\1500_99\575.GIF
108,The Apollo 16 astronauts snapped this view of a cloudy Earth shortly after they were boosted out of Earth orbit. But much of the USA is clear. ,IMAGE_pic1\1500_99\598.GIF
108,The Apollo 16 crew (from the left): Thomas Mattingly, John Young and Charles Duke. ,IMAGE_pic1\1500_99\594a.GIF
109,The Apollo 17 command module just before splashdown on December 19, 1972. Aboard are Eugene Cernan, Ronald Evans and Harrison Schmitt. ,IMAGE_pic1\0_99\21.GIF
99,The Apollo 7 astronauts look down at their home town of Houston. The morning sunlight is reflected from Galveston Bay and the Gulf of Mexico. ,IMAGE_pic1\1400_99\452.GIF
99,The Apollo 7 astronauts spot this hurricane winding itself up. ,IMAGE_pic1\1400_99\453.GIF
99,The Apollo 7 astronauts, from the left: Donn Eisele, Walter Cunningham and Walter Schirra. ,IMAGE_pic1\1400_99\442.GIF
99,The Apollo 7 crew start the tradition of being congratulated by the President, in this case Lyndon Johnson. They are, from the left: Donn Eisele, Walter Schirra and Walter Cunningham. ,IMAGE_pic1\1400_99\458.GIF
99,The Apollo 7 spacecraft manoeuvres towards the Saturn IVB stage of the launch rocket. ,IMAGE_pic1\1400_99\446.GIF
100,The Apollo 8 command module after splashdown in the Pacific, back on Earth after the first ever trip to the Moon and back. ,IMAGE_pic1\1400_99\468.GIF
100,The Apollo 8 crew train inside the Apollo spacecraft simulator at the Kennedy Space Center a month before lift-off. They are, from the left: William Anders, James Lovell and Frank Borman. ,IMAGE_pic1\1400_99\459.GIF
100,The Apollo 8 crew were the first human beings to see the Earth hanging in the lunar sky. ,IMAGE_pic1\300_399\325.GIF
101,The Apollo 9 CSM 'Gumdrop' after separation from 'Spider'. ,IMAGE_pic1\1400_99\475.GIF
101,The Apollo 9 CSM 'Gumdrop' prior to docking with the ascent stage of 'Spider'. ,IMAGE_pic1\1400_99\477.GIF
101,The Apollo 9 CSM 'Gumdrop', with hatch open, pictured from 'Spider'. ,IMAGE_pic1\1400_99\471.GIF
101,The Apollo 9 lunar module, callsign Spider, is put through its paces in orbit for the first time in March 1969. ,IMAGE_pic1\300_399\320.GIF
109,The Apollo astronauts snapped this picture of a full Moon as they set course for Earth in December 1972. It is not the view we see from Earth. About two-thirds shows the far side we can't see from Earth. ,IMAGE_pic1\100_199\189.GIF
60,The Apollo CSM docked with Skylab, a still from a movie made by the Skylab 4 astronauts, taken during the final EVA from Skylab on February 3, 1974. ,IMAGE_pic1\1700_99\714a.GIF
109,The Apollo era is all but over. The Apollo 17 command module has just splashed down after the final Apollo mission. December 19, 1972. ,IMAGE_pic1\800_899\805.GIF
272,The arrow in this false-colour picture sent back by IRAS points to a region in a distant nebula (cloud) of gas and dust where stars are being born. ,IMAGE_pic1\200_299\225.GIF
109,The ascent stage is now clear of the descent stage and is heading for lunar orbit. (Apollo 17) ,IMAGE_pic1\1600_99\632.GIF
101,The ascent stage of the Apollo 9 lunar module 'Spider' after the descent stage has been jettisoned. ,IMAGE_pic1\1400_99\476.GIF
113,The ASTP Apollo spacecraft closes in to rendezvous with Soyuz. ,IMAGE_pic1\400_499\419.GIF
488,The atmosphere of Jupiter is vividly coloured and marked by bands of clouds and furious winds. The Great Red Spot and nearby White Oval are gigantic storm centres. (Voyager 2) ,IMAGE_pic1\700_799\736.GIF
179,The bail-out pole being installed in Endeavour on April 16, 1992. The crew would use it to effect an escape from the orbiter during an in-flight emergency. ,IMAGE_pic1\1000_99\13.GIF
448,The beautiful blue world of Neptune, spied by Voyager 2 in July 1989. Visible on the disc are wisps of cloud and a Great Dark Spot. ,IMAGE_pic1\100_199\120.GIF
426,The beginning of the first flight of the 44P variant of the Ariane 4, which has four solid boosters, on April 4, 1991. It is carrying the Canadian satellite Anik E2. ,IMAGE_pic1\1400_99\415.GIF
163,The Bight of Bangkok and the city of Bangkok, capital of Thailand. (STS-45) ,IMAGE_pic1\1200_99\264.GIF
101,The blackened Apollo 9 command module is hauled aboard the USS 'Guadalcanal' during recovery operations after splashdown. ,IMAGE_pic1\1400_99\482.GIF
97,The burnt-out Apollo 1 spacecraft in which Virgil Grissom, Edward White and Roger Chaffee died during training on January 27, 1967. ,IMAGE_pic1\1400_99\439.GIF
304,The butterfly-like Nimbus satellite used for monitoring the atmosphere. The first Landsats were of similar design. ,IMAGE_pic1\700_799\723.GIF
106,The central unit of the ALSEP scientific station the astronauts set up. (Apollo 14) ,IMAGE_pic1\1500_99\558.GIF
32,The centrifuge at the Johnson Space Center, Houston, being used in 1966 for g-force training by Apollo astronauts. ,IMAGE_pic1\700_799\761.GIF
73,The centrifuge at the Johnson Space Center, which is used to give astronauts a taste of the g-forces they experience in orbit. ,IMAGE_pic1\0_99\49.GIF
151,The city of Chicago and Lake Michigan, photographed on STS-36. ,IMAGE_pic1\1000_99\41.GIF
497,The closest galaxy to our own, the irregular Large Magellanic Cloud. Some 30,000 light-years across, it is located in the constellation Dorado about 170,000 light-years away. ,IMAGE_pic1\900_999\934.GIF
278,The cluster of galaxies known as Abell 2256, viewed at X-ray wavelengths by Rosat. ,IMAGE_pic1\1000_99\76.GIF
109,The colour TV camera on the lunar rover records the lift-off of the ascent stage of the lunar module. (Apollo 17) ,IMAGE_pic1\1600_99\631.GIF
56,The Columbus free flyer is visited by a crew from Hermes. ,IMAGE_pic1\1400_99\417.GIF
277,The communications link between the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) and Earth. The HST sends picture signals to one of the TDRS satellites, which relays them to the HST ground station at White Sands, New Mexico. ,IMAGE_pic1\200_299\265.GIF
139,The completed beam assembly, with a dramatic landscape beneath. (STS-61B) ,IMAGE_pic1\1800_99\895.GIF
495,The constellation Orion, one of the most easily recognized in the heavens, with the Orion nebula shining brightly. ,IMAGE_pic1\900_999\931.GIF
152,The controllers in the Kennedy launch control center begin to relax as Discovery streaks into the clouds on STS-31. Control is now being switched to mission control, Houston. ,IMAGE_pic1\1000_99\50.GIF
449,The cover over the recording 'Sounds of Earth', attached to the Voyager probes now winging their way towards interstellar space. ,IMAGE_pic1\700_799\730.GIF
498,The Crab nebula (M1), a huge cloud of matter ejected into space during a supernova explosion in AD 1054. ,IMAGE_pic1\900_999\963.GIF
129,The crew of Challenger on STS-41G have their traditional breakfast photocall on launch day, October 5, 1985. ,IMAGE_pic1\900_999\984.GIF
18,The crew of Discovery on STS-41D in August 1984. They are (from the top): Judy Resnik, Charles Walker, Steven Hawley, Richard Mullane, Henry Hartsfield and Michael Coats. ,IMAGE_pic1\0_99\56.GIF
179,The crew of seven that will fly Endeavour on its maiden journey into space (from the left): Kathryn Thornton, Bruce Melnick, Pierre Thuot, Daniel Brandenstein, Kevin Chilton, Thomas Akers and Richard Hieb, pictured at the Rockwell plant at Palmdale, California. ,IMAGE_pic1\1000_99\2.GIF
124,The crew of the STS-8 mission with Challenger. They are (from left): Daniel Brandenstein, Dale Gardner, Richard Truly, William Thornton and Guion Bluford. ,IMAGE_pic1\900_999\969.GIF
163,The crew on mission STS-45 and a statue named Oscar. They participate in the 1992 Academy Award motion-picture presentations. From the left, the crew are: Dirk Frimout, Kathryn Sullivan, Brian Duffy, David Leestma, Charles Bolden, Michael Foale and Byron Lichtenberg. ,IMAGE_pic1\1200_99\263.GIF
152,The crew on STS-31 pose against a starry background. They are, from the left: Charles Bolden, Steven Hawley, Loren Shriver, Bruce McCandless and Kathryn Sullivan. ,IMAGE_pic1\1000_99\47.GIF
164,The crew patch for Endeavour's first mission, STS-49. The ship depicted is the orbiter's namesake, in which Captain Cook sailed on his first expedition to the South Pacific. ,IMAGE_pic1\1000_99\15.GIF
152,The crew patch for STS-31 features the Hubble space telescope (HST) and stylistic depiction of galaxies, in recognition of Edwin Hubble, who pioneered the study of galaxies. ,IMAGE_pic1\1000_99\46.GIF
150,The crew patch for the STS-32 mission, which features the recovery of the LDEF and the launch of a Syncom comsat. ,IMAGE_pic1\1000_99\24.GIF
155,The crew patch for the STS-35, Astro-1 mission shows the shuttle flying above the Earth's atmosphere, where it can view the stars more clearly, such as the featured constellation of Orion. ,IMAGE_pic1\1100_99\100.GIF
156,The crew patch for the STS-37 mission features the Compton gamma- ray observatory (GRO). The shuttle orbiter and the GRO are connected by a stylized gamma (Greek letter). ,IMAGE_pic1\1100_99\115.GIF
153,The crew patch for the STS-41 mission shows the path of the probe Ulysses from the payload bay of the shuttle orbiter and looping around Jupiter and the Sun. ,IMAGE_pic1\1000_99\83.GIF
159,The crew patch for the STS-43 mission shows in gold a silhouette of the TDRS comsat the astronauts will launch. ,IMAGE_pic1\1100_99\168.GIF
107,The CSM in lunar orbit on the Apollo 15 mission, showing the open scientific instrument module (SIM). ,IMAGE_pic1\300_399\330.GIF
57,The cylindrical habitats and laboratory modules at the heart of space station Freedom, as it might look early next century. ,IMAGE_pic1\1900_99\926.GIF
105,The damaged service module snapped by the Apollo 13 astronauts as they jettisoned it prior to re-entry in the command module. ,IMAGE_pic1\100_199\166.GIF
161,The Defence Support Payload in Atlantis' payload bay before deployment. (STS-44) ,IMAGE_pic1\1200_99\210.GIF
498,The delicate tapestry of glowing gas which we know as the Veil nebula, in the constellation Cygnus. It is what remains of a supernova explosion long ago. ,IMAGE_pic1\900_999\961.GIF
497,The dense star clouds that make up the Milky Way in the constellation Sagittarius. ,IMAGE_pic1\900_999\955.GIF
104,The Earth eclipses the Sun as the Apollo 12 astronauts make their way to the Moon, heading for a second lunar landing. ,IMAGE_pic1\500_599\583.GIF
100,The Earth hangs in the Moon sky, one of the dramatic pictures snapped by Apollo 8. ,IMAGE_pic1\1400_99\465.GIF
42,The ejector seat fitted to Vostok capsules, in which cosmonauts ejected and parachuted to the ground; Baikonur Space Museum. ,IMAGE_pic1\300_399\365.GIF
60,The emblem for the Skylab mission, showing how the space station should have appeared in orbit. ,IMAGE_pic1\300_399\334.GIF
304,The EROS Data Center at Sioux Falls, North Dakota, which is the centre for processing Landsat and other Earth-resources data. ,IMAGE_pic1\0_99\41.GIF
138,The European astronaut Wubbo Ockels demonstrates how easy it is to do a handstand in zero gravity. (STS-61A) ,IMAGE_pic1\1400_99\405.GIF
68,The European Operations Centre (ESOC), ESA's main mission control centre at Darmstadt in Germany. ,IMAGE_pic1\1400_99\421.GIF
121,The exhaust gases glow as Columbia fires its orbital manoeuvring engines. (STS-5) ,IMAGE_pic1\1700_99\790.GIF
117,The external tank for STS-3 arrives at the Kennedy Space Center. Unlike the tanks for the two previous flights, this one is left unpainted, as have been all tanks since. ,IMAGE_pic1\1900_99\992.GIF
163,The external tank, jettisoned by Atlantis after about 8 minutes of flight. At top can be seen the attach points and liquid oxygen line. (STS-45) ,IMAGE_pic1\1200_99\252.GIF
113,The famous handshake during the ASTP mission, when US Apollo and Soviet Soyuz astronauts and cosmonauts first came together. ,IMAGE_pic1\400_499\417.GIF
1,The father of American rocketry, Robert Goddard, at his New Mexico test range in the 1930s. ,IMAGE_pic1\800_899\830.GIF
267,The final orbiting astronomical observatory Copernicus being readied at the Kennedy Space Center before its launch on August 21, 1972. ,IMAGE_pic1\1900_99\966.GIF
98,The first Apollo stack, the Saturn V/Apollo 4, stands ready on the launch pad the evening before its successful first flight on November 9, 1967. ,IMAGE_pic1\300_399\308.GIF
426,The first Ariane 4 launch vehicle on the launch pad at the Kourou Space Centre in June 1988. It is the 44LP variant, with two solid and two liquid fuelled boosters. ,IMAGE_pic1\1400_99\413.GIF
411,The first flight of the Saturn IB launch vehicle from Cape Canaveral, on February 26, 1966. It carries an instrumented Apollo CSM. The command module is successfully recovered. ,IMAGE_pic1\1600_99\639.GIF
34,The first group of female astronauts selected by NASA for shuttle flights pose near a shuttle spacesuit and a rescue ball. ,IMAGE_pic1\600_699\656.GIF
426,The first launch of Ariane 4 on June 15, 1988. It carries three satellites, Meteosat 3 (Europe), PanAmSat 1 (US) and Oscar 13 (Germany). ,IMAGE_pic1\1400_99\414.GIF
55,The first main stage in the construction of Freedom is the man- tended configuration shown here, with one node and the US laboratory module in place. ,IMAGE_pic1\1900_99\946.GIF
9,The first man in space, Yuri Gagarin, suited up for launch. ,IMAGE_pic1\100_199\150.GIF
412,The first stage engines of the Saturn V Moon rocket, which is on display in front of the VAB and a favourite tourist attraction at the Kennedy Space Center. ,IMAGE_pic1\1900_99\919.GIF
72,The first stage of a Proton rocket in the Proton assembly building at Baikonur. ,IMAGE_pic1\300_399\360.GIF
426,The first stage of an Ariane 4 launch vehicle being prepared at the Kourou Space Centre. ,IMAGE_pic1\1400_99\411.GIF
98,The first successful lift-off of the unmanned Apollo 4/Saturn V launch vehicle on November 9, 1967. ,IMAGE_pic1\1400_99\440.GIF
9,The first two men in orbit, cosmonauts Yuri Gagarin (right) and Gherman Titov, who flew on the Vostok 1 and Vostok 2 missions in 1961. ,IMAGE_pic1\500_599\549.GIF
123,The first US woman astronaut, Sally Ride, leaving Houston for the Kennedy Space Center. (STS-7) ,IMAGE_pic1\1800_99\802.GIF
46,The first, unmanned, launch from Cape Canaveral of the Gemini- Titan launch vehicle on April 8, 1964. ,IMAGE_pic1\1600_99\640.GIF
279,The first-ever gamma-ray burst captured on film, from data returned from the GRO on May 3, 1991. ,IMAGE_pic1\1100_99\129.GIF
159,The five crew members for the STS-43 mission, dressed in their flight suits. They are, from the left: Shannon Lucid, James Adamson, John Blaha, David Low and Michael Baker. ,IMAGE_pic1\1100_99\169.GIF
160,The five STS-48 astronauts on Discovery's mid-deck: from the left, Kenneth Reightler, Mark Brown, John Creighton, Charles Gemar and James Buchli. ,IMAGE_pic1\1100_99\196.GIF
74,The fixed and rotating service structure of shuttle launch pad 39B at the Kennedy Space Center. Note the long lightning conductor on top. ,IMAGE_pic1\800_899\888.GIF
8,The flight crew for STS-41G, the first to include two women. The astronauts are (from the left): Jon McBride, Paul Scully-Power, Sally Ride, Robert Crippen, Kathryn Sullivan, Marc Garneau and David Leestma. ,IMAGE_pic1\700_799\784.GIF
140,The flight crew for STS-61C after completion of the terminal countdown demonstration test in the white room on Pad 39B. They are, from the left: Robert Gibson, Steven Hawley, Charles Bolden, George Nelson and Franklin Chang-Diaz. ,IMAGE_pic1\1900_99\985.GIF
56,The Freedom space station in orbit early next century. The cylinder in the foreground is the European laboratory module, part of ESA's Columbus programme. The European spaceplane Hermes is shown docked with the station. ,IMAGE_pic1\1400_99\416.GIF
448,The full disc of Neptune, pictured by Voyager 2 in August 1989, showing the Great Dark Spot and wispy clouds. ,IMAGE_pic1\600_699\607.GIF
497,The galaxy M83, viewed at radio wavelengths. ,IMAGE_pic1\900_999\968.GIF
148,The Galileo probe undergoing final checks at the Kennedy Space Center before installation in Atlantis for the STS-34 mission. ,IMAGE_pic1\300_399\301.GIF
99,The Ganges Plain in India, pictured from Apollo 7. ,IMAGE_pic1\1400_99\451.GIF
490,The gas giants Uranus and Neptune dwarf our own planet Earth. ,IMAGE_pic1\200_299\260.GIF
46,The Gemini 11 crew jettison the tether that connects them with the Agena target vehicle during their three-day mission, September 12-15, 1966. ,IMAGE_pic1\1600_99\654.GIF
46,The Gemini 5 crew, Gordon Cooper (left) and Charles Conrad, strap themselves in the capsule shortly before lift-off on August 21, 1965. ,IMAGE_pic1\1600_99\640a.GIF
130,The giant eight-track crawler begins its slow journey back to the VAB after depositing on the launch pad the shuttle stack of orbiter, external tank and SRBs, and mobile launch platform. ,IMAGE_pic1\1900_99\993.GIF
503,The giant main mirror of the William Herschel Telescope at the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory, La Palma, in the Canary Islands. It measures 4.2 metres across. ,IMAGE_pic1\1900_99\970.GIF
70,The Goldstone tracking station in California, a key installation in the Jet Propulsion Laboratory's Deep Space Network tracking and communications system. ,IMAGE_pic1\700_799\715.GIF
279,The GRO captured this gamma-ray image of the quasar 3C 279 in the constellation Virgo (the Virgin). ,IMAGE_pic1\1100_99\130.GIF
68,The headquarters building of the European Space Research Institute (ESRIN) at Frascati in Italy. It includes Earthnet, ESA's main data-processing facility. ,IMAGE_pic1\1400_99\428.GIF
114,The heat shield of an Apollo command module melting and breaking up during re-entry, as pictured by a long-range camera. ,IMAGE_pic1\700_799\787.GIF
51,The heated food tray Skylab astronauts used when taking meals, a great advance on eating arrangements on previous missions. ,IMAGE_pic1\1600_99\689.GIF
503,The heliostat on top of the McMath solar telescope at Kitt Peak Observatory, the biggest instrument of its kind in the world. ,IMAGE_pic1\900_999\943.GIF
431,The Hermes launch site is at Europe's Kourou Space Centre in French Guiana. ,IMAGE_pic1\1300_99\370.GIF
179,The highlight of Endeavour's maiden flight is the hands-on capture by three astronauts of an Intelsat 6 communications satellite. From the left, the astronauts are Richard Hieb, Thomas Akers and Pierre Thuot. ,IMAGE_pic1\1000_99\19.GIF
167,The HL-10, one of the lifting-body craft NASA developed in their research into space planes in the 1960s. Data from lifting-body flights proved useful in the design of the shuttle. ,IMAGE_pic1\600_699\681.GIF
152,The HST behaves itself and unfurls its solar arrays and deploys its antennas on command. (STS-31) ,IMAGE_pic1\1000_99\54.GIF
277,The Hubble Space Telescope sent back this picture of Mars, showing in dark blue the region known as Syrtis Major. ,IMAGE_pic1\200_299\227.GIF
277,The Hubble space telescope spots an expanding ring of gas around the star that exploded as a supernova (SN1987A) in 1987. ,IMAGE_pic1\500_599\541.GIF
141,The ill-fated crew of Challenger head for the launch pad on January 28, 1986, hours before lift-off on the STS-51L mission. They are (front to rear): Francis Scobee, Judy Resnik, Ronald McNair, Michael Smith, Christa McAuliffe, Ellison Onizuka and Gregory Jarvis. ,IMAGE_pic1\0_99\35.GIF
65,The image top right, sent back by the Hubble Space Telescope, shows the most remote planet, Pluto, and its moon Charon. It is the clearest picture yet of the system. ,IMAGE_pic1\200_299\213.GIF
458,The inertial upper stage fires beneath the Galileo probe after its launch from Atlantis on STS-34 (artist's impression), boosting it to escape velocity and a complicated trajectory towards Jupiter. ,IMAGE_pic1\300_399\302.GIF
422,The infamous V-2 rocket, displayed at the National Aerospace Museum, Washington DC. At top is the V-1 'buzz bomb'. ,IMAGE_pic1\500_599\553.GIF
114,The interior of the Apollo command module. ,IMAGE_pic1\300_399\306.GIF
98,The interstage section between the first and second stages of the unmanned Apollo 6/Saturn V launch vehicle falls away during lift- off on April 4, 1968. ,IMAGE_pic1\1400_99\441.GIF
161,The island of Aldabra in the Seychelles, in the Indian Ocean. It is a coral atoll enveloping a huge shallow lagoon. (STS-44) ,IMAGE_pic1\1200_99\220.GIF
503,The Jacobus Kapteyn 1-metre reflecting telescope at the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory on La Palma is, like most modern instruments, computer controlled. ,IMAGE_pic1\900_999\936.GIF
459,The joint European Space Agency/NASA mission Ulysses explores the polar regions of the Sun, after a gravity-assist manoeuvre at Jupiter. ,IMAGE_pic1\1300_99\377.GIF
105,The jury-rigged 'mail box' that the Apollo 13 astronauts used to purge their spacecraft of carbon dioxide after the air- conditioning system had been knocked out by the explosion. ,IMAGE_pic1\1500_99\537.GIF
132,The large Syncom IV/Leasat s comsat being installed in Discovery's payload bay. At top is the smaller Anik C1. (STS-51D) ,IMAGE_pic1\1800_99\854.GIF
272,The launch of the infrared astronomy satellite IRAS from the Vandenberg Air Force Base in California on January 25, 1983. ,IMAGE_pic1\600_699\638.GIF
150,The LDEF appears end- on as it is gently lowered into Columbia's payload bay. (STS-32) ,IMAGE_pic1\1000_99\32.GIF
0,The legendary X-15 rocket plane in its 1964 version, with new external fuel tanks. ,IMAGE_pic1\1900_99\955.GIF
431,The legendary X-15 rocket plane in which some pilots flew so high they were awarded astronaut's wings. Its pilots included Neil Armstrong. ,IMAGE_pic1\300_399\339.GIF
102,The lunar module 'Snoopy' closes in to dock with the Apollo CSM 'Charlie Brown'. ,IMAGE_pic1\1400_99\490.GIF
103,The lunar module's landing legs hardly sink into the lunar soil at all. The surface is firm, though dust-covered. (Apollo 11) ,IMAGE_pic1\1500_99\500.GIF
109,The lunar module, beautifully photographed just before it docks with the CSM in lunar orbit. (Apollo 17) ,IMAGE_pic1\1600_99\633.GIF
107,The lunar rover is collapsed and stowed in the lunar module as preparations proceed for the Apollo 15 mission. ,IMAGE_pic1\1500_99\571.GIF
108,The lunar rover, pictured from a distance from 'Orion'. (Apollo 16) ,IMAGE_pic1\1600_99\611.GIF
109,The main parachutes lower the Apollo 17 command module to a gentle splashdown in the Pacific on December 19, 1972. ,IMAGE_pic1\1600_99\634.GIF
72,The massive core stages of Energia, being completed at the Energia assembly building at Baikonur, March 1991. ,IMAGE_pic1\300_399\386.GIF
499,The Mayall reflector, which has a mirror 4 metres across. Like most modern reflectors, it is of lightweight skeletal design. ,IMAGE_pic1\500_599\520.GIF
499,The McMath solar telescope at Kitt Peak Observatory in Arizona is the largest of its kind, with a heliostat 2 metres across. ,IMAGE_pic1\500_599\517.GIF
100,The mighty Saturn V powers the Apollo 8 astronauts on the first stage of their exciting journey to the Moon on December 21, 1968. ,IMAGE_pic1\0_99\74.GIF
104,The mineral crystals in an Apollo 12 basalt rock, viewed through a petrological microscope. ,IMAGE_pic1\1500_99\532.GIF
30,The mission emblem for Apollo 17, the last Moon landing mission. ,IMAGE_pic1\900_999\900.GIF
114,The mission emblems for the Apollo missions. (Apollo 7 and 9 were Earth orbital test missions.) ,IMAGE_pic1\300_399\305.GIF
102,The Moon looms large as the Apollo 10 crew home onto their target. ,IMAGE_pic1\1400_99\485.GIF
6,The most famous of all space pictures, Neil Armstrong's photo of Edwin Aldrin on the Sea of Tranquillity on the Apollo 11 mission in July 1969. ,IMAGE_pic1\100_199\107.GIF
449,The multihued surface of giant Jupiter, pictured by the Voyager 1 probe in February 1979. Also visible are two moons: Io, over the Great Red Spot, and Europa. ,IMAGE_pic1\100_199\182.GIF
448,The night side of Saturn's largest moon, Titan (Voyager 2). Note the brightness around the limb of the moon caused by the presence of its atmosphere. ,IMAGE_pic1\600_699\604.GIF
141,The nose section of one of Challenger's SRBs being lowered into an abandoned Minuteman missile silo at Cape Canaveral, where the orbiter's remains are being stored. (STS-51L) ,IMAGE_pic1\1900_99\986.GIF
305,The oceanography satellite Seasat in orbit 800 km high scanned the Earth at radar wavelengths in 1978. ,IMAGE_pic1\200_299\285.GIF
105,The ones that nearly didn't make it, the Apollo 13 crew. From the left, they are: James Lovell, Thomas Mattingly and Fred Haise. ,IMAGE_pic1\1500_99\535.GIF
10,The Original Seven Mercury astronauts in their spacesuits. The astronauts are (from the left, back row): Alan Shepard, Virgil Grissom and Gordon Cooper; (front row) Walter Schirra, Donald Slayton, John Glenn and Scott Carpenter. ,IMAGE_pic1\100_199\127.GIF
10,The Original Seven Mercury astronauts pictured in front of one of their F-102 jet trainers in March 1961. They are (from the left): Scott Carpenter, Gordon Cooper, John Glenn, Virgil Grissom, Walter Schirra, Alan Shepard and Donald Slayton. ,IMAGE_pic1\0_99\50.GIF
55,The other main modules will be added to the man-tended configuration until Freedom is in the final permanently manned configuration shown here. ,IMAGE_pic1\1900_99\947.GIF
359,The ozone hole over Antarctica, pictured in this image derived from data transmitted by the Nimbus 7 satellite late in 1989. ,IMAGE_pic1\500_599\529.GIF
70,The Parkes Radio Telescope in New South Wales, Australia, was brought into NASA's Deep Space Network to receive the faint signals from the Voyager 2 encounter with Neptune in August 1989. ,IMAGE_pic1\100_199\188.GIF
75,The partly completed transporter and launch platform for the Ariane 5 launch vehicle at the ELA 3 launch complex. ,IMAGE_pic1\1400_99\438.GIF
155,The payload for the STS-35 mission, Astro-1. It features a variety of astronomical instruments mounted on Spacelab pallets, and in the foreground the 'igloo' housing the command and control unit. ,IMAGE_pic1\1100_99\102.GIF
497,The peculiar galaxy Centaurus A in the constellation Centaurus, which is bisected by a dense dust lane. ,IMAGE_pic1\900_999\959.GIF
408,The Pegasus space booster drops from the B-52 to begin its first flight into space on April 5, 1990. ,IMAGE_pic1\1000_99\81.GIF
442,The picture on the plaques carried by the Pioneer 10 and 11 probes to Jupiter and Saturn. They show the dominant life forms on Earth, the location of Earth in the Solar System and the location of the Solar System in Space. ,IMAGE_pic1\100_199\118.GIF
437,The pioneering space probe Mariner 4, the first to return images from deep space, of Mars in July 1965. ,IMAGE_pic1\700_799\757.GIF
491,The planet Neptune and (arrowed) the two moons that can be seen from Earth. Closest in is the largest moon, Triton. ,IMAGE_pic1\900_999\926.GIF
501,The Pleides star cluster, in the constellation Taurus. Its seven brightest stars give it the name the Seven Sisters. ,IMAGE_pic1\900_999\932.GIF
499,The prehistoric megalithic marvel and observatory Stonehenge, which the ancient Britons used to follow the movements of the Sun and the Moon. ,IMAGE_pic1\900_999\940.GIF
117,The pristine external tank for STS-1, ready for mating with the rest of the shuttle stack. Only on this mission and STS-2 were the tanks painted white. ,IMAGE_pic1\1900_99\991.GIF
180,The prototype shuttle orbiter Enterprise is lowered to the floor of the VAB during destacking operations in July 1979. Earlier it had been mated with external tank and SRBs to form a dummy shuttle stack in fit and function checks for the system. ,IMAGE_pic1\600_699\642.GIF
167,The prototype shuttle orbiter Enterprise takes shape at the Downey, California, facility of Rockwell International. ,IMAGE_pic1\700_799\755.GIF
503,The radio telescope at Arecibo on the Caribbean island of Puerto Rico. Its fixed dish is 308 metres across. ,IMAGE_pic1\900_999\944.GIF
464,The Ranger 3 lunar probe, launched in January 1962 to crash-land on the Moon. It missed its target by some 36,000 km. ,IMAGE_pic1\200_299\298.GIF
108,The rear of the lunar rover, showing the stowed tools. (Apollo 16) ,IMAGE_pic1\1600_99\609.GIF
125,The Red Sea between Africa (bottom) and Arabia, viewed by Spacelab's metric camera. ,IMAGE_pic1\1400_99\407.GIF
23,The Redstone rocket boosts the Mercury capsule Freedom 7 from the launch pad at Cape Canaveral. Alan Shepard begins a 15-minute suborbital hop into space and back. ,IMAGE_pic1\800_899\855.GIF
304,The Remote Sensing Division of RAE Farnborough in Hampshire, England, produced this false-colour image of part of China using Landsat 1 data. ,IMAGE_pic1\200_299\211.GIF
487,The remote-controlled Martian aircraft will have a 20-metre wingspan and be driven by propeller, powered by a hydrazine- fuelled engine. ,IMAGE_pic1\500_599\507.GIF
481,The renowned Voyager imaging team responsible for interpreting the hundreds of images that flood into the Jet Propulsion Laboratory mission control at each planetary encounter. ,IMAGE_pic1\100_199\194.GIF
157,The RMS arm reaches out to capture the SPAS-II data-collection satellite after a period of free flight. (STS-39) ,IMAGE_pic1\1100_99\140.GIF
74,The rocket park at the Visitors Center at the Kennedy Space Center, where examples of early US space hardware can be seen, including at left the Mercury-Redstone and Mercury-Atlas vehicles and at right the Gemini-Titan. ,IMAGE_pic1\200_299\288.GIF
128,The roll-out of the STS-41D stack in May 1984. The orbiter, Discovery, will make its maiden flight on August 30. ,IMAGE_pic1\700_799\799.GIF
380,The Russian A series of launch vehicles are recognised by the four strap-on liquid-propellant rockets at their base. ,IMAGE_pic1\0_99\98.GIF
397,The Russian Energia launch vehicle on the launch pad at Baikonur being prepared for its first space flight in May 1987. ,IMAGE_pic1\700_799\771.GIF
35,The Russian spacesuit, which has a built-in backpack holding the systems for life support. ,IMAGE_pic1\300_399\374.GIF
446,The rust-coloured Martian surface on the plain of Chryse, photographed by the Viking 1 lander in 1976. ,IMAGE_pic1\100_199\143.GIF
446,The rusty coloured surface of Mars, photographed by the Viking 1 lander on the plain of Chryse. The lander's sampling scoop and arm are in the foreground. ,IMAGE_pic1\500_599\586.GIF
109,The Saturn V/Apollo 17 launch vehicle lights up the night sky as it thunders from the pad on December 7, 1972. ,IMAGE_pic1\300_399\331.GIF
103,The scarred and blackened Apollo 11 command module being hauled aboard the recovery ship after splashdown on July 24, 1969. ,IMAGE_pic1\0_99\17.GIF
73,The scene at Mission Control at the Johnson Space Center, Houston, after the textbook touchdown of Columbia on its first flight (STS-1) on April 14, 1981. ,IMAGE_pic1\0_99\70.GIF
108,The scene at Mission Control, Houston, as Apollo 16 was pulling rapidly away from the Earth, shown on the TV monitor. ,IMAGE_pic1\1500_99\599.GIF
70,The scene inside the control room of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory at Pasadena during the Voyager 1 encounter with Saturn in November 1980. ,IMAGE_pic1\200_299\233.GIF
343,The second Lageos satellite spins out of a pod in Columbia's payload bay. The attached booster will later raise Lageos to an operating height of 5,900 km. (STS-52) ,IMAGE_pic1\1900_99\938.GIF
179,The shuttle carrier aircraft rolls to a halt on the shuttle landing facility at the Kennedy Space Center on May 7, 1991, carrying the latest addition to the shuttle fleet, Endeavour. ,IMAGE_pic1\1000_99\6.GIF
57,The shuttle's "crane", the Canadian-built remote manipulating system, is put through its paces on the second shuttle mission (STS-2) on November 13, 1981. ,IMAGE_pic1\0_99\34.GIF
174,The shuttle's remote manipulator system (RMS), or robot arm, also called the Canadarm. Canadian-built, it is shown here under test at Spar Aerospace in Ontario. ,IMAGE_pic1\1900_99\915.GIF
167,The silica fibre material used to make the shuttle tiles have remarkable heat insulation properties as this photograph testifies. ,IMAGE_pic1\100_199\176.GIF
5,The simple gantry Wernher von Braun used at Cape Canaveral for testing early space rockets. ,IMAGE_pic1\800_899\892.GIF
174,The simulator on which astronauts practise deploying and retrieving satellites with the RMS arm. Here the payload is the Hubble space telescope. ,IMAGE_pic1\1900_99\916.GIF
412,The single engine of Saturn V's third stage, which burned liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen propellants. ,IMAGE_pic1\600_699\673.GIF
51,The Skylab 3 astronauts fly around Skylab before docking with it on July 28, 1973. ,IMAGE_pic1\1600_99\694.GIF
60,The Skylab 4 astronauts snapped this picture of Skylab as they left it after an 84-day stay. The two sunshades are clearly visible over the damaged OWS. ,IMAGE_pic1\100_199\159.GIF
51,The Skylab 4/Saturn IB launch vehicle blasts off the pad on November 16, 1973. ,IMAGE_pic1\1700_99\707.GIF
110,The Skylab astronauts carried out extensive investigation of the Sun. They spied such phenomena as this huge prominence leaping high above the surface. ,IMAGE_pic1\800_899\821.GIF
60,The Skylab space station with an Apollo ferry craft docked, as it should have looked in orbit. In the event, one of the two large solar panels was ripped off during launch. ,IMAGE_pic1\600_699\691.GIF
446,The smaller of Mars' two moons, Deimos, pictured by Viking. ,IMAGE_pic1\200_299\229.GIF
409,The snow-clad launch site at Baikonur for Proton rockets. ,IMAGE_pic1\300_399\359.GIF
408,The solid-fuelled Pegasus booster blasts its way out of Earth's atmosphere and into orbit on its first successful flight on April 5, 1990. ,IMAGE_pic1\1000_99\82.GIF
448,The south polar region of Triton, showing plumes where material is being ejected from beneath the surface. (Voyager 2) ,IMAGE_pic1\600_699\620.GIF
473,The Soviet moonwalker Lunokhod 1, which began trundling across the Moon in November 1970. ,IMAGE_pic1\600_699\636.GIF
41,The Soviet space station Salyut 7 in orbit, with a Soyuz ferry craft docked with it. ,IMAGE_pic1\300_399\350.GIF
328,The Space Age began on 4 October 1957 when Russia launched Sputnik 1. The gleaming aluminium sphere measuring 58cm across and weighing 83kg carried a radio transmitter which transmitted its distinctive beep for 3 weeks. It remained in orbit for 96 days.,IMAGE_pic1\sputnik.gif
17,The Spacelab 1 crew busy at work inside the laboratory module. ESA astronaut Ulf Merbold is on the left. ,IMAGE_pic1\800_899\896.GIF
124,The spectacular first night launch of the shuttle occurs on August 30, 1983, as Challenger takes to the skies. (STS-8) ,IMAGE_pic1\1800_99\807.GIF
109,The spectacular lift-off of Saturn V/Apollo 17 on December 7, 1972, the first and only night-time launch of the Saturn V. ,IMAGE_pic1\100_199\168.GIF
118,The STS-2 crew Richard Truly (left) and Joe Engle familiarize themselves with Columbia's aft work station. ,IMAGE_pic1\700_799\778.GIF
118,The STS-2 shuttle stack, carried by crawler transporter, approaches the launch pad at the Kennedy Space Center to be prepared for Columbia's second trip into space. ,IMAGE_pic1\700_799\766.GIF
144,The STS-27 crew at breakfast on launch day. From the left: Guy Gardner, Jerry Ross, Robert Gibson, Richard Mullane and William Shepherd. ,IMAGE_pic1\1900_99\909.GIF
147,The STS-28 crew, pictured on Columbia's mid-deck, is made up of commander Brewster Shaw (bottom right) and, going clockwise from him, James Adamson, David Leestma, Mark Brown, and Richard Richards. ,IMAGE_pic1\1900_99\912.GIF
150,The STS-32 crew (from the left): Marsha Ivins, Daniel Brandenstein, David Low, James Wetherbee and Bonnie Dunbar. ,IMAGE_pic1\1000_99\25.GIF
151,The STS-36 crew take part in a simulation on the flight deck of the crew compartment trainer at the Johnson Space Center. From the left, they are John Casper, Pierre Thuot, David Hilmers, Richard Mullane and John Creighton. ,IMAGE_pic1\1000_99\36.GIF
156,The STS-37 astronauts pose for the traditional in-flight portrait. From left to right, they are Jerry Ross, Steven Nagel, Linda Godwin, Kenneth Cameron and Jerome Apt. ,IMAGE_pic1\1100_99\126.GIF
154,The STS-38 crew patch features a shuttle orbiter firing its orbital manoeuvring system engines in space. The mirror image beneath acknowledges the work of the thousands who work behind the scenes to support the shuttle programme. ,IMAGE_pic1\1000_99\92.GIF
157,The STS-39 astronauts snapped this picture of their home town Houston. NASA's Johnson Space Center is located in the lower right-hand quadrant. ,IMAGE_pic1\1100_99\142.GIF
157,The STS-39 astronauts took this picture of the estuary of the St Lawrence River, Quebec, Canada. ,IMAGE_pic1\1100_99\144.GIF
157,The STS-39 crew pose for an in-flight portrait. They are, from the left, at front: Donald McMonagle, Michael Coats, Lacy Veach and Gregory Harbaugh; at rear, Guion Bluford, Blaine Hammond and Richard Hieb. ,IMAGE_pic1\1100_99\141.GIF
158,The STS-40 crew pose on Columbia's mid-deck. They are, from the left: Drew Gaffney, Bryan O'Connor, Tamara Jernigan, Sidney Gutierrez, Rhea Seddon, Millie Hughes-Fulford and James Bagian. ,IMAGE_pic1\1100_99\161.GIF
158,The STS-40 crew, which includes a record three women. They are, from the left: Drew Gaffney, Bryan O'Connor, Millie Hughes- Fulford, Tamara Jernigan, Rhea Seddon, Sidney Gutierrez and James Bagian. ,IMAGE_pic1\1100_99\150.GIF
128,The STS-41D shuttle starts its slow programmed roll as it lifts- off in August 1984. The orbiter, Discovery, is making its first flight. ,IMAGE_pic1\600_699\650.GIF
129,The STS-41G crew on Challenger's aft flight deck. From the left, front row, they are Jon McBride, Sally Ride, Kathryn Sullivan and David Leestma; back row, Paul Scully-Power, Robert Crippen and Marc Garneau. ,IMAGE_pic1\1800_99\832.GIF
163,The STS-45 crew in training on the pad at the Kennedy Space Center, practising slide-wire escape procedures for use during an on-the-pad emergency. ,IMAGE_pic1\1200_99\248.GIF
160,The STS-48 astronauts spot this huge, flat-topped tabular iceberg in the South Atlantic Ocean. Measuring about 30 km by 60 km, it has broken off the vast Antarctic ice sheet. ,IMAGE_pic1\1100_99\199.GIF
160,The STS-48 crew leave the operations and checkout building at the Kennedy Space Center, heading for the van that will take them to the launch pad in the early morning of September 18, 1991. ,IMAGE_pic1\1100_99\191.GIF
133,The STS-51B crew emerge from Challenger at the end of the Spacelab 3 mission on May 6, 1985. ,IMAGE_pic1\1800_99\869.GIF
133,The STS-51B crew hanging around the Spacelab 3 laboratory module. From left to right, upside-down, are Frederick Gregory, Norman Thagard and Lodewijk van den Berg; right-way up, back, Don Lind and Taylor Wang; front, Robert Overmyer and William Thornton. ,IMAGE_pic1\1800_99\861.GIF
135,The STS-51F crew have their traditional pre-flight meal, heading for a 5 pm lift-off. They are, from the left: John-David Bartoe, Anthony England, Story Musgrave, Gordon Fullerton, Roy Bridges, Loren Acton and Karl Henize. ,IMAGE_pic1\1800_99\872.GIF
135,The STS-51F crew, who man Spacelab's instruments in two shifts, red and blue. From the left, Loren Acton, Roy Bridges and Karl Henize make up the red shift; John-David Bartoe, Story Musgrave and Anthony England, the blue shift. Commander Gordon Fullerton is in stripes. ,IMAGE_pic1\1800_99\880.GIF
123,The STS-7 crew of five, a space record. They are from the left: Sally Ride, John Fabian, Robert Crippen, Norman Thagard and Richard Hauck. ,IMAGE_pic1\1800_99\801.GIF
449,The surface of Jupiter's second largest moon, Callisto (Voyager 1 photo), shows fresh white icy craters. ,IMAGE_pic1\200_299\246.GIF
446,The surface of Mars, from Viking 1, which landed on the plain of Chryse. The landscape is rust-red and strewn with rocks. ,IMAGE_pic1\900_999\915.GIF
150,The Syncom IV-5 comsat appears against the cloud-flecked atmosphere after being deployed from Columbia on January 10, 1990, the second day of the STS-32 mission. ,IMAGE_pic1\1000_99\26.GIF
296,The TDRS, showing the umbrella-like high-gain antennas and extended solar panels. ,IMAGE_pic1\100_199\154.GIF
481,The television cameras and sensing instruments on the scan platform attached to Voyager's science boom. ,IMAGE_pic1\100_199\114.GIF
410,The test stand at the Marshall Space Flight Center that was used for testing Saturn hardware. ,IMAGE_pic1\500_599\551.GIF
166,The tethered satellite gradually recedes as its tether is paid out. (STS-46) ,IMAGE_pic1\1300_99\321.GIF
409,The third stage of a Proton rocket, ready for mating. ,IMAGE_pic1\300_399\362.GIF
100,The three Apollo 8 lunar trailblazers speak to US President Johnson on December 27, 1968, after circumnavigating the Moon. they are (from the left): William Anders, Frank Borman and James Lovell. ,IMAGE_pic1\100_199\167.GIF
167,The three VDUs on the orbiter's flight deck. Commander and pilot use computer keyboards (partly visible at the bottom of the picture) to call up onto the screens flight and systems data.,IMAGE_pic1\1900_99\994.GIF
446,The tiny Martian moon Phobos, from photographs taken by the Viking probes. It is probably a captured asteroid. ,IMAGE_pic1\100_199\184.GIF
74,The tracking ship USS Vandenberg in Port Canaveral. It is used to support rocket launches from Cape Canaveral. ,IMAGE_pic1\600_699\671.GIF
68,The tracking station at Villafranca in Spain, part of ESA's extensive satellite tracking system. ,IMAGE_pic1\1400_99\420.GIF
165,The traditional crew portrait on STS-50 features at top pilot Kenneth Bowersox; then red team members (from the left) Lawrence DeLucas, Richard Richards and Bonnie Dunbar; and blue team members Carl Meade, Ellen Baker and Eugene Trinh. ,IMAGE_pic1\1300_99\309.GIF
100,The triumphant Apollo 8 crew aboard the recovery ship USS 'Yorktown' after their historic journey into space. ,IMAGE_pic1\1400_99\469.GIF
107,The two Apollo 15 astronauts who will ride the lunar rover on the Moon train at the Kennedy Space Center. They are James Irwin (left) and David Scott. ,IMAGE_pic1\1500_99\569.GIF
109,The two Apollo 17 moonwalkers, Eugene Cernan (left) and Harrison Schmitt, photographed by the third crew member Ronald Evans. ,IMAGE_pic1\1600_99\633a.GIF
448,The two brightest of Neptune's rings. (Voyager 2) ,IMAGE_pic1\600_699\611.GIF
61,The two female astronauts on the Spacelab J mission, Jan Davis (left) and Mae Jemison, prepare the lower body negative pressure device. (STS-47) ,IMAGE_pic1\1300_99\337.GIF
160,The UARS (upper atmosphere research satellite) pictured in Discovery's payload bay before deployment. (STS-48) ,IMAGE_pic1\1100_99\193.GIF
459,The Ulysses probe undergoes final tests at Cape Canaveral in June 1990, four months before launch. ,IMAGE_pic1\1000_99\84.GIF
70,The unique HiMAT research aircraft undergoing flight tests at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center. ,IMAGE_pic1\400_499\491.GIF
106,The unit in the foreground is a radioisotope thermoelectric generator (RTG), a nuclear battery that runs the ALSEP instruments and transmitter. (Apollo 14) ,IMAGE_pic1\1500_99\559.GIF
14,The US and Soviet crews chosen for the ASTP mission in July 1975. They are (from the left): Donald Slayton, one of the Original Seven astronauts, Thomas Stafford and Vance Brand for the USA; Alexei Leonov and Valery Kubasov for the USSR. ,IMAGE_pic1\0_99\71.GIF
464,The US Ranger probe, designed to take close-up photos of the Moon before crash-landing. It carries six TV cameras. ,IMAGE_pic1\100_199\162.GIF
165,The USML in orbit inside Columbia's payload bay. In the foreground is the tunnel that connects it with the mid-deck crew cabin. (STS-50) ,IMAGE_pic1\1200_99\299.GIF
446,The Viking 1 orbiter flew within 500 km of Mars' innermost moon Phobos to obtain the pictures for this mosaic. The moon is only about 20 km across. ,IMAGE_pic1\800_899\899.GIF
446,The Viking 1 orbiter snapped this picture of a "face" etched in the Martian landscape. Some have suggested that intelligent beings carved it. ,IMAGE_pic1\200_299\200.GIF
480,The Viking orbiter probe, having just released the lander module, which will soon touch down on the surface of Mars. ,IMAGE_pic1\300_399\344.GIF
489,The vividly coloured moon of Saturn Iapetus, part dark, part red. The moon measures about 1,400 km across. ,IMAGE_pic1\900_999\929.GIF
129,The windows light up with a ruddy glow as Challenger re-enters the atmosphere. Robert Crippen is at the controls. (STS-41G) ,IMAGE_pic1\1800_99\835.GIF
35,These are the liquid-cooled "long johns" that spacewalking shuttle astronauts wear under their spacesuit. ,IMAGE_pic1\200_299\215.GIF
162,Thick pack ice covers James Bay, an arm of Hudson Bay in Canada. The large island off the west shore (left) is Akimiski. (STS-42) ,IMAGE_pic1\1200_99\239.GIF
117,Thirty seconds to go before the first shuttle lift-off (STS-1). Columbia is now under the control of on-board computers which are completing the automatic firing sequence. ,IMAGE_pic1\900_999\906.GIF
34,This all-hard spacesuit, known as the AX-5, has been developed at Ames Research Center for use on space station Freedom. ,IMAGE_pic1\500_599\592.GIF
275,This all-sky map based on COBE data shows the microwave radiation given out by carbon atoms. As expected, the radiation is most intense in the plane of the galaxy (centre). ,IMAGE_pic1\1000_99\70.GIF
22,This Apollo 17 photograph shows geologist Harrison Schmitt close to a massive boulder near the Taurus-Littrow landing site in December 1972. ,IMAGE_pic1\100_199\116.GIF
448,This basin on Neptune's moon Triton was probably formed by the eruption of ice volcanoes (Voyager 2 photo). ,IMAGE_pic1\200_299\256.GIF
27,This classic space picture shows Edward White performing the first American EVA, from Gemini 4 on June 3, 1965. ,IMAGE_pic1\500_599\558.GIF
150,This close-up of the LDEF shows little evidence of wear and tear during the time it has been in orbit. (STS-32) ,IMAGE_pic1\1000_99\30.GIF
109,This coarse-grained rock, brought back from Taurus-Littrow, is very old, maybe as much as 4,300 million years. It is probably part of the Moon's original crust. (Apollo 17) ,IMAGE_pic1\1600_99\636.GIF
275,This COBE image shows slight variations in the intensity of the general background microwave radiation that permeates the universe. It indicates slight differences in the background temperature, which is some 2.7 degrees above absolute zero. ,IMAGE_pic1\1000_99\72a.GIF
167,This colour coded picture shows the areas on the shuttle orbiter that have different forms of thermal protection, or heat-shield material. ,IMAGE_pic1\600_699\655.GIF
61,This cutaway picture shows the shuttle orbiter with Spacelab in the payload bay. This configuration of Spacelab comprises the pressurized long module and pallets. ,IMAGE_pic1\100_199\174.GIF
110,This false-colour image of New Orleans and the Mississippi delta was taken by Skylab astronauts during Earth-resources experiments. ,IMAGE_pic1\0_99\67.GIF
455,This false-colour picture, sent back by Giotto in March 1986, shows gas erupting from Halley's comet. ,IMAGE_pic1\100_199\151.GIF
489,This false-colour Voyager picture shows Saturn's A, B and C rings, each composed of thousands of individual ringlets. ,IMAGE_pic1\200_299\223.GIF
158,This fascinating Earth view shows the Canary Islands and part of the African coast (bottom right). (STS-40) ,IMAGE_pic1\1100_99\165.GIF
161,This giant spiral above the North Pacific Ocean is typhoon Yuri. (STS-44) ,IMAGE_pic1\1200_99\221.GIF
447,This great gash in the surface of Mars, near the equator, is Mariner Valley (Valles Marineris). ,IMAGE_pic1\200_299\202.GIF
277,This Hubble Space Telescope picture of Saturn shows more detail of the atmosphere and rings than Earth-based photos. ,IMAGE_pic1\200_299\263.GIF
277,This Hubble space telescope picture shows the multiple image of a star created by a gravitational lens effect. ,IMAGE_pic1\700_799\714.GIF
117,This in-orbit picture shows tiles missing from the tail pods of Columbia after its first lift-off on April 12, 1981. ,IMAGE_pic1\0_99\33.GIF
305,This intriguing image derived from Seasat's radar data shows variations in sea level over undulations in the seabed. ,IMAGE_pic1\0_99\10.GIF
497,This is the giant elliptical galaxy M87. It lacks the curved arms of the spiral galaxies. ,IMAGE_pic1\900_999\997.GIF
272,This map of our Milky Way galaxy was prepared from data returned to Earth by IRAS. It shows most infrared sources concentrated in the plane of the galaxy. ,IMAGE_pic1\800_899\826.GIF
305,This map, prepared from Seasat data, shows average wind speeds over the globe over a three-month period. ,IMAGE_pic1\100_199\155.GIF
468,This mosaic of Lunar Orbiter photographs highlights one of the Moon's best-known features, Alpine Valley, in the lunar Alps. ,IMAGE_pic1\200_299\205.GIF
109,This photograph shows the view westward at the Taurus-Littrow landing site. (Apollo 17) ,IMAGE_pic1\1600_99\627.GIF
60,This picture of the experimental US space station Skylab in orbit shows well the X-shaped Apollo telescope mount (ATM). ,IMAGE_pic1\0_99\95.GIF
494,This portion of the famous Bayeux Tapestry, which depicts the Norman Conquest of England in 1066, shows a comet that we now know was Halley's. ,IMAGE_pic1\200_299\279.GIF
497,This Sc spiral galaxy is in Canes Venatici. The constellation abounds in all kinds of galaxies. ,IMAGE_pic1\900_999\995.GIF
155,This solid cloud bank indicates torrential rain over the Pacific Ocean. (STS-35) ,IMAGE_pic1\1100_99\109.GIF
157,This stunning shot of layers in the atmosphere above a blazing sunset on the limb of the Earth is one of many outstanding photographs taken by the STS-39 crew. ,IMAGE_pic1\1100_99\145.GIF
164,This unusual view of the beam-building activity in the payload bay was taken through the exit hatch of the mid-deck airlock. (STS-49) ,IMAGE_pic1\1200_99\295.GIF
107,This view from the Apollo 15 landing site shows a formation called Hadley Delta. ,IMAGE_pic1\1500_99\577.GIF
155,This view of the Astro-1 payload in Columbia's payload bay shows three ultraviolet instruments, and in the foreground the command and control 'igloo'. (STS-35) ,IMAGE_pic1\1100_99\106.GIF
446,This Viking photograph was taken as the probe neared Mars. It shows near the centre Mariner Valley; to the left clouds near a volcano, and to the right a frost-filled Argyre Basin. ,IMAGE_pic1\200_299\203.GIF
446,This Viking picture of the Martian surface shows what appears to be a watercourse, formed aeons ago by flooding. ,IMAGE_pic1\100_199\199.GIF
449,This Voyager 1 image shows details of the ring structure around Saturn. The little arc at the outer edge of the rings is part of the F ring, discovered by Pioneer-Saturn. ,IMAGE_pic1\600_699\603.GIF
449,This Voyager 1 picture of Saturn's largest moon Titan shows in blue the haze in its thick atmosphere. ,IMAGE_pic1\100_199\196.GIF
161,Thomas Hennen participating in an ongoing study entitled 'The effect of prolonged space flight on head and gaze stability during locomotion'. (STS-44) ,IMAGE_pic1\1200_99\215.GIF
120,Thomas Mattingly (left foreground) and Henry Hartsfield salute President Ronald Reagan and wife Nancy at Edwards Air Force Base at the end of the STS-4 mission on Independence Day, July 4, 1992. ,IMAGE_pic1\700_799\756.GIF
46,Thomas Stafford pictured inside the spacecraft during the Gemini 9 mission from June 3-6, 1966. ,IMAGE_pic1\1600_99\646.GIF
136,Three comsats are stowed in Discovery's payload bay ready for launch: Aussat-1, ASC-1 and Syncom IV-4. (STS-51I) ,IMAGE_pic1\1800_99\881.GIF
499,Three domes at the Kitt Peak Observatory. The largest houses the 4-metre Mayall reflector. ,IMAGE_pic1\500_599\519.GIF
168,Three huge main parachutes brake the falling SRB so that it will make a gentle splashdown at sea. ,IMAGE_pic1\1900_99\990.GIF
70,Three kinds of lifting-body aircraft NASA tested at the Edwards Air Force Base, California, to investigate alternative methods of returning from space. The data obtained proved useful for the shuttle programme. ,IMAGE_pic1\800_899\846.GIF
124,Three of the STS-8 astronauts reveal their background and loyalties! From the left, they are Dale Gardner, Richard Truly and Daniel Brandenstein. ,IMAGE_pic1\1800_99\813.GIF
493,Three short asteroid trails show in this long-exposure photograph taken by a camera driven to follow the stars. ,IMAGE_pic1\1900_99\969.GIF
105,Three very happy fellas! The Apollo 13 astronauts shortly after splashdown on April 17, 1970, having survived a nerve-racking ordeal. They are (from the left): Fred Haise, James Lovell and John Swigert. ,IMAGE_pic1\100_199\128.GIF
489,Three views of Saturn's moon Hyperion, an irregular, disc-shaped body. (Voyager 2) ,IMAGE_pic1\600_699\635.GIF
488,Through a powerful telescope on Earth Jupiter appears colourful and marked with prominent bands. The Great Red Spot can just be made out in the southern hemisphere. ,IMAGE_pic1\200_299\283.GIF
448,Through Earth-bound telescopes we can see only five moons circling around Uranus. Voyager 2 discovered another ten when it encountered the planet in January 1986. ,IMAGE_pic1\100_199\191.GIF
7,Tired but elated, Neil Armstrong is pictured inside the Apollo 11 lunar module after walking on the Moon on July 20, 1969. ,IMAGE_pic1\0_99\18.GIF
164,Tom Akers at work on the ASEM beam-building activity. (STS-49) ,IMAGE_pic1\1200_99\289.GIF
164,Tom Akers joins three struts together as he builds up a beam structure. (STS-49) ,IMAGE_pic1\1200_99\290.GIF
161,Tom Henricks tests his visual acuity with the visual function test apparatus. (STS-44) ,IMAGE_pic1\1200_99\213.GIF
125,Topsy-turvy inside Spacelab on the STS-9/Spacelab 1 mission are the crew of six, a record number for a space flight. ,IMAGE_pic1\800_899\891.GIF
163,Topsy-turvy mealtime on Atlantis, with Charles Bolden (top) and, going clockwise, Brian Duffy, Dirk Frimout and Kathryn Sullivan. (STS-45) ,IMAGE_pic1\1200_99\255.GIF
17,Training for emergencies in an armoured personnel carrier are the Spacelab 1 crew (from the left): Brewster Shaw, Ulf Merbold, Owen Garriott, John Young, Robert Parker and Byron Lichtenberg. ,IMAGE_pic1\600_699\698.GIF
128,Training for STS-41D are mission specialist Judith Resnick and payload specialist Charles Walker. ,IMAGE_pic1\1800_99\824.GIF
158,Training for the STS-40 Spacelab life-sciences mission inside a full-scale Spacelab. At left is Millie Hughes-Fulford and at rear Drew Gaffney, both STS-40 mission specialists. In the 'rocking chair' in the foreground is back-up crew member Robert Phillips. ,IMAGE_pic1\1100_99\152.GIF
446,True and false-colour Viking picture of Mars, featuring near the centre the volcanoes on the Tharsis Ridge. ,IMAGE_pic1\900_999\954.GIF
103,TV coverage of Edwin Aldrin (left) setting up the solar wind experiment. (Apollo 11) ,IMAGE_pic1\1500_99\506.GIF
162,Twin lakes dominate this photograph of the southern part of the desolate Tibetan Plateau, a few kilometres north of the Nepal border. (STS-42) ,IMAGE_pic1\1200_99\240.GIF
130,Two captured satellites in Discovery's payload bay, following the most exciting in-space EVAs ever. (STS-51A) ,IMAGE_pic1\1800_99\846.GIF
17,Two European astronauts, Wubbo Ockels (left) and Ulf Merbold, train for Spacelab flights in a mock-up of the space laboratory. ,IMAGE_pic1\100_199\135.GIF
449,Two false-colour views of Saturn taken by Voyager 1 (left) and Voyager 2, showing how the planet's appearance changed between the two encounters. ,IMAGE_pic1\700_799\786.GIF
167,Two minutes after the shuttle lifts off, the SRBs are cut loose from the external tank, leaving the orbiter's main engines to power it into space. ,IMAGE_pic1\0_99\88.GIF
168,Two minutes into the shuttle mission, the twin SRBs separate, leaving the orbiter and external tank to continue skywards. ,IMAGE_pic1\700_799\704.GIF
74,Two of NASA's armoured personnel carriers (APCs), photographed by the VAB and the Saturn V rocket at the Kennedy Space Center. The APCs stand by to rescue shuttle crews during on-pad emergencies. ,IMAGE_pic1\600_699\694.GIF
393,Two of the booster rockets separate as planned a minute after the launch of a Delta 3920 from Cape Canaveral. ,IMAGE_pic1\1900_99\917.GIF
448,Two of the many new moons Voyager 2 discovered when it encountered Uranus. They appear to be shepherd moons, keeping ring particles in place. ,IMAGE_pic1\100_199\192.GIF
33,Two of the Original Seven Mercury astronauts on a survival exercise in the early 1960s. ,IMAGE_pic1\800_899\854.GIF
448,Two rings and two new moons are visible in this Voyager 2 picture taken during the Neptune encounter. Voyager discovered six new moons in all. ,IMAGE_pic1\200_299\254.GIF
130,Two satellites, hardly used, for sale! Dale Gardner is the salesman. (STS-51A) ,IMAGE_pic1\1800_99\845.GIF
141,Two shuttles on the pads for the first time, in December 1985. In the foreground on pad A is Columbia (STS-61C); on pad B is Challenger (STS-51L). ,IMAGE_pic1\1800_99\896.GIF
448,Two views of Neptune from a distance of 19 million km, showing the rotation of the atmosphere. (Voyager 2) ,IMAGE_pic1\600_699\608.GIF
431,Two views of the European Space Agency's spaceplane Hermes, with coupled resource module at rear. A man is shown to give scale. ,IMAGE_pic1\1300_99\364.GIF
448,Two Voyager 2 images of different halves of Neptune's ring system. There are two bright rings and a third closer in to the planet. There is also a faint band between the two bright rings. ,IMAGE_pic1\600_699\624.GIF
459,Ulysses flies by Jupiter 16 months after launch and right on target. It uses Jupiter's powerful gravity to deflect it into an orbit that will take it out of the plane of the planets' orbits and 'below' the south polar region of the Sun. ,IMAGE_pic1\1300_99\384.GIF
104,Unfurling the American flag on the desolate Ocean of Storms. (Apollo 12) ,IMAGE_pic1\1500_99\525.GIF
104,Unpacking the equipment from 'Intrepid' during the first of two lunar EVA's. (Apollo 12) ,IMAGE_pic1\1500_99\523a.GIF
272,US and Dutch technicians carry out a final pre launch checkout of IRAS at the Vandenberg Air Force Base in January 1983. ,IMAGE_pic1\200_299\222.GIF
113,US astronaut Vance Brand (left) and Soviet cosmonaut Valery Kubasov train inside a Soyuz mock-up for the ASTP mission. ,IMAGE_pic1\0_99\22.GIF
138,US mission specialist Bonnie Dunbar and German payload specialist Reinhard Furrer busy at work in Spacelab. (STS-61A) ,IMAGE_pic1\1800_99\888.GIF
24,Valentina Tereshkova pictured in her spacesuit before her flight in Vostok 6 in June 1963. ,IMAGE_pic1\200_299\209.GIF
59,Valery Kubasov tends his 'cosmic garden' in Salyut 6. On-board greenhouse modules will be needed for spacecraft embarked on interplanetary missions next century. ,IMAGE_pic1\700_799\790.GIF
215,Valery Kubasov, half of the Soviet crew on the ASTP mission. ,IMAGE_pic1\400_499\425.GIF
113,Vance Brand at the controls of the Apollo command module during the ASTP mission in July 1975. ,IMAGE_pic1\500_599\574.GIF
480,View from the Viking 1 lander of drifted dunes on Mars. ,IMAGE_pic1\1700_99\740.GIF
104,View of Mission Control, Houston, during the Apollo 12 mission. ,IMAGE_pic1\1500_99\530.GIF
102,View of the lunar module 'Snoopy' after separating in lunar orbit from the CSM 'Charlie Brown'. (Apollo 10) ,IMAGE_pic1\1400_99\487.GIF
102,View of the Sea of Tranquillity from Apollo 10. ,IMAGE_pic1\1400_99\491.GIF
157,Viewed from Discovery's flight deck is the payload, which includes an Air Force instrument package. (STS-39) ,IMAGE_pic1\1100_99\135.GIF
9,Viewed in the Space Museum at Baikonur is a replica of the Vostok capsule in which Yuri Gagarin pioneered manned space flight. ,IMAGE_pic1\300_399\364.GIF
447,Viking 2 view of the Martian plain of Utopia, remarkably similar to the Viking 1 view. ,IMAGE_pic1\1700_99\741.GIF
277,Violent storms are raging in Saturn's atmosphere in this picture taken by the Hubble Space Telescope in 1990. ,IMAGE_pic1\200_299\264.GIF
11,Virgil Grissom in his silvery Mercury spacesuit. ,IMAGE_pic1\800_899\862.GIF
11,Virgil Grissom lifts off the launch pad on a Redstone rocket on the second suborbital Mercury mission in Liberty Bell 7. ,IMAGE_pic1\500_599\573.GIF
47,Virgil Grissom on the recovery ship USS 'Randolf', after his 15- minute suborbital flight. His spacecraft, Liberty Bell 7, sank. ,IMAGE_pic1\1600_99\668.GIF
449,Voyager 1 took this picture of the underside of Saturn's rings after passing through the ring plane on November 12, 1980. The thin outermost F ring cannot be detected from Earth. ,IMAGE_pic1\100_199\181.GIF
449,Voyager 1 view of Saturn's rings from the underside, showing the B ring (dark reddish) as the darkest feature and the adjacent Cassini division as the brightest. ,IMAGE_pic1\700_799\765.GIF
448,Voyager 2 captured this slim crescent of Triton as it headed away from the Neptunian system into the depths of space. ,IMAGE_pic1\600_699\615.GIF
448,Voyager 2 found Neptune a surprisingly colourful world, with unexpected weather systems. ,IMAGE_pic1\200_299\251.GIF
448,Voyager 2 looked back the way it had come to capture this image of Neptune and its largest moon Triton. ,IMAGE_pic1\600_699\613.GIF
448,Voyager 2 looks back at Uranus after its close encounter in January 1986, viewing the planet as a slim crescent. ,IMAGE_pic1\200_299\234.GIF
489,Voyager 2 sent back this image of Saturn and its rings when it was about 14 million km from the planet. ,IMAGE_pic1\900_999\917.GIF
448,Voyager 2 swooped to within 38,000 km of Triton, sending back remarkable pictures, such as this flooded basin. ,IMAGE_pic1\600_699\616.GIF
448,Voyager 2's cameras picked out cloud shadows on lower layers of Neptune's atmosphere when it swooped to within a few thousand kilometres of the planet. ,IMAGE_pic1\200_299\253.GIF
448,Voyager images showed that in natural colour Uranus was a uniform blue-green colour, with no trace of cloud bands. ,IMAGE_pic1\100_199\197.GIF
99,Walter Cunningham at work in Apollo 7. ,IMAGE_pic1\1400_99\450.GIF
46,Walter Schirra sits in the Gemini 6 spacecraft after splashdown. ,IMAGE_pic1\1600_99\644.GIF
116,Walter Schirra's grin says it all after his successful flight into orbit in the Mercury capsule Faith 7. ,IMAGE_pic1\1900_99\959.GIF
47,Walter Schirra's Mercury spacecraft Sigma 7, about to be winched aboard the recovery ship USS 'Kearsarge' on October 3, 1962. ,IMAGE_pic1\1600_99\671.GIF
5,Wernher von Braun inside the blockhouse in July 1966, observing the lift-off of a Saturn IB launch vehicle through the periscope. ,IMAGE_pic1\800_899\832.GIF
130,Westar is captured. Dale Gardner (left) is detaching the stinger, while Joseph Allen on the robot arm holds the other end. (STS- 51A) ,IMAGE_pic1\1800_99\843.GIF
448,When images of Uranus returned by the Voyager are computer- processed, a dense haze (orange/red) appears over the south pole. ,IMAGE_pic1\100_199\198.GIF
105,When the Apollo 13 astronauts are dropped off in Hawaii, President Nixon is there to welcome them back safely to Earth. ,IMAGE_pic1\1500_99\542.GIF
159,Who's really upside-down in this STS-43 crew portrait (from the left): David Low, Shannon Lucid, James Adamson, John Blaha or Michael Parker? ,IMAGE_pic1\1100_99\182.GIF
58,Wide-angle view of the mission control room at Kaliningrad prior to transmission to Mir. The coloured lights on the tracking map show the positions of Mir and a Progress ferry. ,IMAGE_pic1\300_399\393.GIF
136,William Fisher hangs on to the Leasat 3 satellite during the STS-51I recovery and repair mission. ,IMAGE_pic1\800_899\878.GIF
136,William Fisher pictured during the EVA in which he and James van Hoften repaired Leasat and re deployed it. (STS-51I) ,IMAGE_pic1\1900_99\980.GIF
121,William Lenoir (left) and Vance Brand pictured at the rear of Columbia's flight deck. (STS-5) ,IMAGE_pic1\1700_99\785.GIF
121,William Lenoir trims Robert Overmyer's hair on Columbia's first operational flight (STS-5) in November 1982. ,IMAGE_pic1\0_99\9.GIF
104,Winching operations during water egress training for the Apollo 12 crew in the Gulf of Mexico. ,IMAGE_pic1\1500_99\518a.GIF
99,With 11-day growths of beard, the Apollo 7 crew (left to right) Walter Schirra, Donn Eisele and Walter Cunningham relax aboard the recovery ship USS 'Essex'. ,IMAGE_pic1\1400_99\457.GIF
54,With a suitable docking adapter, Hermes would be able to dock with the Russian space station Mir. ,IMAGE_pic1\1300_99\374.GIF
29,With biosensors attached to his body, Ham is being prepared for his flight in a Mercury capsule on January 31, 1961. ,IMAGE_pic1\1600_99\665.GIF
177,With Egypt down below, Columbia's Canadian-built robot arm carries a Canadian experiment called MELEO (materials exposure in low Earth orbit). (STS-52) ,IMAGE_pic1\1900_99\940.GIF
178,With its booster attached, Ulysses is released into space from Discovery's payload bay on October 6, 1990. Soon the booster will successfully fire to place the probe into its correct orbit to Jupiter. ,IMAGE_pic1\1300_99\383.GIF
102,With its descent stage jettisoned, 'Snoopy' is homing in to rendezvous and dock with 'Charlie Brown'. (Apollo 10) ,IMAGE_pic1\1400_99\488.GIF
458,With Jupiter as a backdrop, the Galileo probe encounters Io and its erupting volcanoes (artist's impression). ,IMAGE_pic1\300_399\304.GIF
46,With Navy frogmen in attendance, Thomas Stafford (left) and Walter Schirra clamber out of the Gemini 6 module.. ,IMAGE_pic1\1600_99\645.GIF
156,With the desert region of the Middle East far below, Atlantis' RMS arm lifts the GRO out of the payload bay. (STS-37) ,IMAGE_pic1\1100_99\119.GIF
164,With the final hours of the countdown ticking away, the STS-49 crew set out for the launch pad. Commander Dan Brandenstein leads (right front), with Bruce Melnick to his right. Then follow, from the left: Kevin Chilton, Tom Akers, Pierre Thuot, Kathy Thornton and Rick Hieb. ,IMAGE_pic1\1200_99\276.GIF
179,With the glare from the twin solid rocket boosters nearly blinding the camera, Endeavour streaks into the evening sky on May 7, 1992. ,IMAGE_pic1\1000_99\18b.GIF
164,With the Intelsat hovering above Endeavour's payload bay, Rick Hieb (left), Tom Akers (centre) and Pierre Thuot attach the grapple bar to the Intelsat. (STS-49) ,IMAGE_pic1\1200_99\284.GIF
164,With the new booster attached, the Intelsat spins slowly out of the payload bay. (STS-49) ,IMAGE_pic1\1200_99\286.GIF
179,With the rotating service structure rolled back, Endeavour and the shuttle stack are bathed in the setting Sun on May 6, 1992, the eve of its first launch. ,IMAGE_pic1\1000_99\14a.GIF
61,Work forges ahead on Spacelab modules inside the operations and checkout building at the Kennedy Space Center in the summer of 1984, one of the busiest years in shuttle history. ,IMAGE_pic1\800_899\881.GIF
65,Work proceeds at NASDA's Tanegashima Space Centre on mating the direct broadcasting satellite Yuri 2a (BS-2a) with its N-2 launch vehicle. ,IMAGE_pic1\600_699\629.GIF
176,Wreckage of Challenger recovered from the Atlantic after the explosion that blew it to pieces on January 28, 1986. ,IMAGE_pic1\0_99\59.GIF
68,Wubbo Ockels tests a modified space sleeping bag, developed by ESTEC. He took it with him when he made his space debut in Spacelab D1 (STS-61A) in October 1985. ,IMAGE_pic1\1400_99\426.GIF